Robert Lepage's staging of "Die Walkure" continues to fulfill the enormous promise of last autumn's "Das Rheingold," the first in Richard Wagner's four-part "Ring of the Nibelung." “Rheingold,” with ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It's a marathon even when everything goes according to plan, but on Wednesday, Opera Australia's Die Walkure went for 90 minutes longer ...

"Die Walkure," the second opera in Wagner's "Ring" cycle, has long been considered one of the singular masterpieces in the opera canon. It is unlikely few would dispute that claim after hearing, and ...

Despite his huge line-up of instruments Wagner uses his orchestra to create some of music's most transfixing sounds. Stephen Johnson descends to the orchestra pit to explore how. Show more With its ...