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The concert opens with Rachmaninoff's romantic "Vocalise." Mulligan will perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No.

"Gotterdammerung," the final installment in the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle, is the most theatrically effective staging of the four works in this epic series, and the clearest representation of the director Robert Lepage's vision.

Bringing Richard Wagner's epic "Ring Cycle" to its cataclysmic ending, the Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Gotterdammerung" will be broadcast live via HD transmission at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Eileen & Paul Finkel Auditorium at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge, and at the Skyline Movie Theater in Dillon.

"The Met: Live in HD" rolls on in the new year with the finale of Richard Wagner's acclaimed "Ring Cycle." "Gotterdammerung" is about power and ambition, focusing on Brunnhilde, a heroine tasked with saving the world.

The Tschaikowski St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of music director and chief conductor Roman Leontiev, will perform in concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Anderson Center for the Performing Arts at Binghamton University in Vestal.

As the New York Met's epic production of Gotterdammerung is broadcast in cinemas, Tim Cornwell travels to the USA for a look behind the scenes - and to meet two of the opera's Scottish stars OPERA doesn't get much bigger than GA tterdA mmerung at the Met - the four-hour climax of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle, at New York Metropolitan Opera - "the ... (more)

The "National Theatre Live" production of Nicholas Wright's play about Eastern European immigrants who become major players in Hollywood's golden age broadcast from London's National Theatre will be screened at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Hollywood 14, 6200 S.W. 6th.

The Metropolitan Opera's new production of " Gotterdammerung ," the final opera in Richard Wagner's cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen," will air in movie theaters across the country on Saturday.

The 1891 Fredonia Opera House continues the 2011-12 season of Live at the Met high-definition opera broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera with Richard Wagner's Gotterdammerung, on Saturday at noon.

This coming Wednesday, Feb. 8, 5:30-7 p.m., the Music Hall Opera Circle will present a discussion of the story, the music, and the meaning of Richard Wagner's "Gotterdammerung ." TV producer/musician Dennis Neil Kleinman will lead the discussion, designed to enhance the viewing of the Met Opera broadcast of Gotterdammerung on Sunday, Feb.

Faculty members will step away from the podium and center stage to perform overtures, arias and other operatic selections from classic and contemporary operas in a free, public concert on Tuesday at the University of Evansville.

It's been a notable week for the loss of titles: first Fred Goodwin, formerly a knight of the realm,... Berlin's biggest opera house, the Deutsche Oper, has been forced to backtrack on plans to stage a re-launched version of Adolf Hitler's favourite Wagner opera on the Nazi leader's birthday.

On Saturday, February 11th, beginning at 9:00 am, the Metropolitan Opera's production of Richard Wagner's Gtterdmmerung will be screened live in HD at the Cinearts Empire 3 and Century 9 . Robert Lepage's technologically advanced new staging of Wagner's Ring cycle comes to an epic climax with Gtterdmmerung .

The days of anticipation came to a close on Jan. 27 with the final curtain on Robert Lepage's production of "Gotterdammerung," the last opera of Richard Wagner's epic cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen." Now we know how it ends, how Lepage's conception hangs together, what works and what doesn't. One knew from " Das Rheingold ," last season's opening ... (more)

It has been far to long since I presented for your attention one of my Wagner miscellanea articles - a view of Wagner or related work from a very unexpected angle.

The 2012 Chinese Culture Year in Germany marking the 40th anniversary of Sino-German diplomatic ties was officially launched with a concert in Berlin Monday evening.

A semi-staged version of Jonathan Harvey's interpretation of an unfinished opera by Wagner that mingles scenes from Wagner's domestic life with the myth of Prakriti, whose love for the Buddhist monk Ananda is at first thwarted, but finally reaches a chaste fulfilment.

Deborah Voigt as Brunnhilde in the Robert Lepage production of "Gotterdammerung" at the Met.

A Metropolitan Opera presentation of an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. Directed by Robert Lepage.

In the 2012-13 season, announced today, The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra will return to 16 weeks of traditional concerts, including a focus on Richard Wagner and his legacy.