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The Vienna Philharmonic performs selections by Amilcare Ponchielli, Johann Strauss, and Jeronimo Gimenez.

At first glance, after the uninterrupted flow of drama in the three preceding parts of the Ring, the libretto of Götterdämmerung might seem a throwback.

Of all the major characters in the Ring, Siegfried is probably the one who has been most misunderstood.

The plot of Die Walküre can be summarized in a few dozen words; the outer events are relatively simple. But the inner journey of the characters is uncommonly rich and complex.

Jay Hunter Morris performs an excerpt from Robert Lepage's new production of Wagner's Siegfried.

In all of Western culture there is nothing quite like Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (“The Ring of the Nibelung”). Based on Wagner’s own retelling of stories from ancient German and Icelandic mythology, it consists of four separate but intimately related operas—some of them ...

James Levine and Robert Lepage discuss the opening bars of Wagner's Das Rheingold.

Paul McCartney performs the Fred E. Ahlert and Joe Young classic.

Soprano Renée Fleming interviews Jay Hunter Morris, who plays Siegfried in Robert Lepage's new production of Wagner's Ring cycle.

Eva-Maria Westbroek performs an excerpt from Robert Lepage's new production of Wagner's Die Walküre.