"Das Rheingold" is the first opera of Richard Wagner's monumental "Der Ring des Nibelungen." "'The Ring' is not just a story or a series of operas, it's a cosmos," said Robert Lepage, the director of ...

In the depths of the Rhine, the three Rhine maidens guard the gold. Alberich, the Lord of the Nibelung who tries in vain to win one of the three girls to sees the gold and first learns that to rob the ...

“Das Rheingold” is the first chapter in composer Richard Wagner’s epic 4-opera tale “Der Ring des Nibelungen” (The Ring of the Nibelung). Each chapter/opera is separate yet intimately interwoven, and ...

At the end of Opera North’s first performance of Das Rheingold, conductor Richard Farnes singled out the orchestra section by section (horns and Wagner tubas inevitably, rightly, first) for applause ...

The single act of Das Rheingold begins in the depths of the Rhine river. The entire Ring cycle finishes — four operas and more than 15 hours later — on the banks of the same river. As the orchestral ...

Well, it’s finally arrived! The “it” in question is, of course, Richard Wagner’s monumental operatic myth, The Ring of the Nibelung. The four-part epic, being staged by Houston Grand Opera over a span ...

Hardly anyone watching Houston Grand Opera's performance of "Das Rheingold" on Friday could ever have witnessed a theatrical stroke like this: Richard Wagner's tale of gods, gnomes and giants battling ...