Provoking boos 25 years ago for radical stagings saturated with sex and violence, Calixto Bieito at age 61 has transformed ...
Ward Senior High School in Westerly welcomed world-famous dramatic soprano Doris Doree at 8:30 on the evening of Feb. 3, 1944 ...
the prologue of the tetralogy of 'The Ring of the Nibelung', which deals with the dichotomy between love and power. The stage of the Bastille, the most modern venue of the Parisian Opera ...
His notable wins include Best Opera Recording for Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" and Best Classical Album for "Solti Conducts Wagner – The Ring of the Nibelung." Quincy Jones – 28 ...
PARIS — Calixto Bieito turned introspective as he sat in a cafe across from the Opéra Bastille, where his production of the first night Wagner’s Ring Cycle was to premiere the following day.
He was commissioned for Wagner’s four-opera “Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung)” in 2015 and was in rehearsals for an April 2020 opening when the the coronavirus pandemic ...
What cruel fate took him from his dying mother’s arms to the charge of Mime, a Nibelung smith? As the duplicitous Mime, whose foster son’s best interests are secondary to his desire for gold ...
Kiefer references Brünhilde and her horse Grane in the context of the medieval Nibelungen saga and Wagner’s famous 19th-century opera cycle, The Ring of the Nibelung. The warrior queen’s ...