"Acclaim for Robert Lepage's ground-breaking production: A high-tech Ring with a traditional heart (Boston Globe). In Die Walkure, Terfel's Wotan crackled with intensity, incisive diction and gravelly power. Voigt invested energy, feeling and character in every phrase. Kaufmann looked like a young demigod. Westbroek: rich, throbbing and intense: Levine drew exciting, wondrously natural playing from the great Met orchestra (New York Times)"--Container....

A mythical tale of the battle for power between the Nibelung dwarfs, the giants and the gods.

The four operas of The Ring Cycle. This performance of Wagner's opera Siegfried recorded at the Metropolitan Opera House features vocalists such as Bryn Terfel, Deborah Voigt, Jay Hunter Morris, and Gerhard Seigel in the leading roles.

A young man is enlisted to rescue the Queen of the Night's daughter from a sorcerer.

Spanning almost the entire history of opera, this book re-examines attitudes toward some of our best-loved musical works, and asks a question: what exactly is opera? It considers the works by Handel, Mozart, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, and Berio, aiming to challenge what many regard as sacroscant: the opera's musical text.

When Polly Peachum, daughter to a local fence and thief-catcher, marries infamous highwayman Macheath, it sets off a comically dangerous chain of events as Polly's father is determined to have his new son-in-law killed. However, Polly isn't the only woman in Macheath's life, and he soon gets caught up in the consequences of his many indiscretions. The Beggar's Opera is the most famous surviving example of satirical ballad opera to come out of the...