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Music reviewer SARAH EC BYRNE is living the dream at the Australian Opera's performance of Wagner's "Ring Cycle" in Brisbane.

In 1961, I was a seventh grader at Woodrow Wilson Junior High (grades 7 through 9) in Terre Haute.

The Norris Cultural Arts Center in St. Charles will host three Sunday afternoon chamber music concerts for its fall "Music & More in the Gallery" series, starting Sept. 24 with a performance by harpist Alison Attar and violinist Rika Seko.

Taipei, July 7 (CNA) The New Puppet Theatre Lab will perform a glove puppetry version of German composer Richard Wagner's "Ring Cycle" at the National Center for Traditional Arts in Yilan County on Saturday and Sunday, according to a statement released by the group.

NEW YORK (AP) — Yannick Nézet-Séguin is remaking the Metropolitan Opera from the bottom up.

NEW YORK (AP) — Yannick Nézet-Séguin is remaking the Metropolitan Opera from the bottom up.

“I still feel that we are at the beginning of our journey together,” Nézet-Séguin said during a rehearsal break last week. Finishing his fifth season as music director, he takes the Met on its first tour since 2011 and the first solely of the orchestra since 2002, giving concerts from Tuesday through July 2 in Paris, London and Baden-Baden, Germany. Nezet-Séguin has led eight new productions and five revivals as music director, among 23 stagings he’s conduct...

NEW YORK (AP) — Yannick Nézet-Séguin is remaking the Metropolitan Opera from the bottom up.

Among our critic’s recommendations are multiple “Ring” cycles, a premiere by Ellen Reid and the soprano Lise Davidsen in Strauss’s “Salome.”

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