Tag: Götterdämmerung
'Classicalite’s Five Best: Musical Silences
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'DEADLINE: Wagner Society of Santa Fe Wants Your 'Ring' Sequel
Wagnerites, take heed. In celebration of both National Opera Week as well as the composer's ongoing 200th, the Wagner Society of Santa Fe is seeking sequels to Der Ring des Nibelungen--specifically, what happens to Alberich. Yes, all would-be librettists are invited to imagine the treacherous dwarf's fate after the Ring's fiery en -
'Wagner @ Bayreuth: Frank Castorf's 'Götterdämmerung' Booed Out of Bayreuth
The gods did not go up in flames, but the audience erupted in a fury of booing on Wednesday night as an unorthodox new staging of Richard Wagner's 'Ring Cycle' for his 200th birthday at his opera house in Bayreuth came to a near-riotous conclusion.