Article: Reading Richard Wagner (out loud); Reading Wagner, out loud ; A stage director records the 'Ring' cycle opera, minus the music

Transcript: Profile: Richard Wagner's "The Ring of ...
NPR All Things Considered;  August 2, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... 0000 Profile: Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung ... 125 years since Richard Wagner premieres his four-opera epic The Ring of the Nibelung ... SILLMAN reporting: Richard Wagner set the very first ... first opera in his ring cycle in the Rhine ...

Article: Richard Wagner's "Ring" - Playing with ...
The Economist (US);  August 5, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... in these times of ours," moaned Richard Wagner after the first performances of his "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (The Ring of the Nibelung) at the Bayreuth ... lived on for seven years but the "Ring" was not given again at Bayreuth ...

Article: Ring sing.(comments on Richard Wagner, The ...
National Review;  July 12, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... At age 13 I saw Wagner's Ring in London, and again the following ... and Matti Salminen. The Ring of the Nibelung is, of course ... listener, which didn't bother Richard Wagner in the least. He was attempting ... is the second opera in The Ring, and lasts about four hours ...

Article: Wagner and his ring of women Michael Kennedy considers a ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  December 12, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... insisted on the "holy German art" speech by Sachs at the end of Die Meistersinger, and she who saw the possibilities of "Richard Wagner plc", an industry which, after his death, she created at Bayreuth, where she followed her own agenda. Wagner had wanted ...

Article: 'RING' LEADER THE SEATTLE OPERA TAKES ON RICHARD ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  August 4, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... million production of Wagner's vast ``Der Ring des Nibelungen'' tonight at the Opera ... sold-out. Once upon a time, the ``Ring'' outside Germany and Austria was a rarity ... houses. ``Why are so many doing the `Ring'?'' said Speight Jenkins, general ...

Article: Roll Over, Richard Wagner; Today's Arias Have the ...
The Washington Post;  August 9, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... composers are getting their inspiration from the headlines, to be sure: We still have new operas like "The Postman Always Rings Twice," which is right in the tradition of "I Pagliacci"; "The Ghosts of Versailles," which has a strong kinship to ...

Article: Richard Wagner: A genius wrapped in an enigma As ...
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  February 9, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... magnetic attraction Richard Wagner holds, not only ... century later, Richard Wagner remains a genius ... music that defines Richard Wagner for eternity ... singers. The "Ring" cycle, in particular ... supposedly seen 40 'Rings.' They'll ...