Alberich then forges the Rhinegold into an all-powerful ring, but he has had to renounce love to achieve this. Wotan, leader of the Gods, is encouraged by the mercurial fire god Loge to descend to ...

On the bed of the Rhine, the Nibelung dwarf Alberich steals the Rhinegold from its guardians, the Rhinemaidens. Alberich then forges the Rhinegold into an all-powerful ring, but he has had to ...

Wotan is not the only one awaiting the end ... Waltraute pleads with her sister to cast the ring into the Rhine and save the world, but the love-besotted Brünnhilde refuses.

Richard Wagner conceived his Ring of the Nibelung as a multimedia ... Casts include Mark Delavan (Wotan/Wanderer), Stefan ...

and the ring large enough to fit around the neck like a noose. After Wotan entered Valhalla as smoke filled the auditorium at the Jan. 29 premiere, the cast and conductor Pablo Heras-Casado were ...

and the ring large enough to fit around the neck like a noose. After Wotan entered Valhalla as smoke filled the auditorium at the Jan. 29 premiere, the cast and conductor Pablo Heras-Casado were ...

Five television monitors were arranged in the shape of a crucifix in Nibelheim’s subterranean chasm; the magic helmet Tarnhelm looked like a Basquiat image, and the ring large enough to fit around the ...