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1 month old This article is more than 1 month old Richard Wagner’s four-part opera epic will play at London’s Coliseum over several years A scene from Twilight of the Gods at the Coliseum in 2005. Phyllida Lloyd’s production was the last time the Ring Cycle had been staged by ENO. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian A scene from Twilight of the Gods at the Coliseum in 2005. Phyllida Lloyd’s production was the last time the Ring Cycle had been staged by ENO. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian Wed 24 Feb 2021 02.01 EST It is the Mount Everest of opera, with about 16 hours of ...

7 pm ET: Lawrence Brownlee presents The Sitdown with LB. The tenor’s Facebook Live series returns with an unfiltered and honest look inside the opera industry. This week: Management, featuring Matthew Horner (IMG Artists) and Alex Fletcher (Fletcher Artist Management). View here. LIVE ** 7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. Starring Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, and Gabriel Bacquier, conducted by Nicola Rescigno. Production by John Dexter. From January 11, 1979. View here and for 24 hours. 7:30 pm ET: SalonEra presents Jewish Diaspora. Rec...

Last modified on Mon 15 Feb 2021 07.14 EST The galumphing comedy of Siegfried leaves me cold The list of operas I’d happily never sit through again grows longer by the year, but Siegfried has been very near the top of it for a long time. I’m not a perfect Wagnerite by any means (another of his greatest works would also be on my blacklist), but nor am I a Wagner-phobe: I find Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung totally compelling parts of The Ring. Yet the galumphing comedy of Siegfried leaves me utterly cold, and even the glorious scene between Erda and The Wanderer that opens the third ac...

Stephen Fry, Joanna Lumley and more on their obsession with Wagner’s Ring cycle As Radio 3 broadcasts four nights of the Ring Cycle, famous fans explain the magic moments that hold them spellbound 16 February 2021 • 6:00am Nina Stemme's Brünnhilde (seen here in  Götterdämmerung) is a highlight of this Ring Cycle Credit: Bill Cooper/Bill Cooper From tomorrow evening onwards, BBC Radio 3 encourages you to leave the earthly toil of lockdown and become swept up in Wagner’s Ring cycle. The composer’s tetralogy of operas, comprising Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdäm...

12 pm ET: Mark Morris Dance Group presents Dido and Aeneas. A screening of the 1995 film directed by Barbara Willis Sweete who recreated the Dido and Aeneas set on a sound stage in Toronto and filmed it without the constraints of a proscenium stage and with Morris in his critically acclaimed role. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Morris and Sweete and launches a week of activities including talks with dancers and artistic collaborators. Dance with MMDG classes for all levels to learn excerpts of the work; Dance for PD classes appropriate for anyone with mobility concerns. V...