One major advantage of unveiling a production of Wagner’s Ring cycle year by year over four years is that you don’t need to decide at the beginning how it will end. The director of the Royal ...

There are daunting shows for performers — and then there is Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Imagine having to sing The Lord of the Rings over an orchestra summoning the end and then rebirth of the world.

Marcus Pettersson, Filip Hronek, Conor Garland, and Drew O'Connor will be vying for gold at the 2025 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship. The Vancouver Canucks finished one point ahead of the Utah ...

Tom Willander’s NCAA season with Boston University ended over two weeks ago. He and his teammates made it to the championship game in the Frozen Four, but ran into a red-hot Western Michigan team, ...

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AEW President Tony Khan recently spoke to Way of the Blade, and confirmed he hopes to see Danielson back in an AEW ring once he's dealt with his nagging issues (which closes the door on theories that ...

In his 2015 Edward W. Said London lecture at the Southbank Centre, Daniel Barenboim calls for ‘music once more to be taught in schools on a par with literature, mathematics or biology’. Music forces ...

An epic Atlanta Opera adventure through Richard Wagner’s colossal, four-part “Ring Cycle” of operas continues this spring with the third in the series, “Siegfried,” after last year’s “Die Walküre” and ...

It's no big deal. It's much ado about nothing." In an X post on Monday, Wagner said the bigger issue was that Rutherford's hypothetical "unfairly and out of nowhere — threw fuel onto the 'Quinn ...

Did the Vancouver Canucks’ president of hockey operations commit some tampering on Monday? By the letter of the law, maybe. But, more importantly, he likely caused some unnecessary drama for the most ...

I like to help my fellow Westerners understand China by comparing it to our own history. The Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476 AD, leading to the Middle Ages — a time of political fragmentation, ...