The Ring of the Nibelung — or the Ring Cycle, as it's known — is not often performed in concert by symphony orchestras. Together, Richard Wagner's four operas stretch 15 hours.

PARIS (AP) — 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 ...

A complete Ring cycle, as it’s commonly called, is about 15 hours of music without breaks. “Siegfried” alone clocks in around four hours.

Dallas Symphony begins its semi-staged Wagner ‘Ring’ with the cycle’s first two operas Music director Fabio Luisi will conduct ‘Das Rheingold’ and ‘Die Walküre’ at the Meyerson.

ZURICH – In an age of radical reinterpretations, conductor Gianandrea Noseda and director Andreas Homoki created a counterrevolutionary version of Wagner’s four-night, 15-hour Ring Cycle that ...

His “Ring” has an organizational arm, called Wagner-Lesarten, or Wagner Readings — now called the Wagner Cycles — which has brought together minds from music, science and history to ...

Wagner worked on the Ring cycle for 25 years, drawing from a wide array of sources, including Greek, Norse, Icelandic and Middle German mythology — as well as contemporary philosophy and his own ...

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 ...

PARIS (AP) — 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.