Harry Kupfer

The prologue to Wagner’s giant masterpiece Der Ring des Nibelungen unfolds the beginning of an epic journey when Alberich seizes the ring ...

The show opens in the “world of the dead”, where Luigi Lucheni is being interrogated by a Judge as to why he has murdered the Empress ...

PRELIMINARY EVENINING OF THE RING CYCLE. Upon the banks of the ageless river Rhine, the Rhinemaidens play. Alberich, a Nibelung dwarf, tries ...

Nancy Shade is persuasive as the awkward adolescent Marie, whose naiveté leads relentlessly to her downfall. Michael Ebbecke is sympathetic as ...

Recorded at the Vienna State Opera house in 1989, this staging of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Elektra is one of the glories of ...