Brünnhilde repents and orders a funeral pyre to be built. She rides into the fire herself, and the Rhinemaidens get the ring back. The story closes with flames flickering about Valhalla in the ...

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. “I am ...

There were also some odd ideas in the stage movement, like Alberich holding Rhinemaidens tightly at the exact point at which the libretto says they’ve slipped out of his grasp or are at some distant ...