Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 26 June 1870, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 14 August 1876.
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Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...
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The life and work of stage designer ADOLPHE APPIA, originator of the most profound agitations in con...
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Newman's poem tells the story of a soul's journey through death, and provides a meditation on the un...
Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.
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