Surging, rhythmic string music punctuated by piercing horn sounds. Powerful, spine-tingling arias sung at hair-splitting volumes. And then there’s the scene, the one everyone knows even if they’ve ...

Die Walküre is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National ...

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libretto by the composer. It is the second of the four operas that form Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago on Nov. 1, 2017, opens a new production of “Die Walkure” (“The Valkyrie”), the second installment of David Pountney’s staging of Richard Wagner’s epic tetralogy “Der Ring des ...

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 ...

This week in the magazine, Alex Ross writes about Richard Wagner's "Ring," focussing in on ten haunting measures from Act II of "Die Walküre," the second opera of the four-part cycle. Here Ross ...

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — For an opera festival that ran before it could walk, Wagner in Vermont can still run remarkably well. TUNDI Productions offered an honest, competent, at times stirring “Die Walküre” ...

Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle is known to be the most impressive event in opera, representing the pinnacle of opulence, excess and excellence and the ultimate challenge for any opera company. As the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Richard Jones’s bleak staging of Wagner’s “Die Walküre” in London offers a clean break from the extravagance of the Met’s most recent ...