Guardian Music — Longborough Festival Opera, Moreton-in-MarshAny lingering notion that Longborough's full-scale Wagner Ring represented folly has been blown away with this fine production of Die Walküre, the second opera in the cycle: it has both intimacy and integr... more info

Star Online, Malaysia — BERLIN (AP): The yearly festival celebrating the music of Richard Wagner has opened in Bayreuth, the city where the celebrated German composer made his home in his later years. more info

Topix — The yearly festival celebrating the music of Richard Wagner has opened in Bayreuth, the city where the celebrated German composer made his home in his later years. more info

Guardian Music — First festival under sole direction of composer's great-granddaughters offers chance to modernise 134-year-old eventNot so long ago they were siblings at war. Now the great-granddaughters of Richard Wagner have put their feud behind them because they... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonPresented as a "concert staging" of surprising austerity, Welsh National Opera's Prom performance of Mastersingers effectively formed the final leg of the production's opening tour. The audience found themselves faced with a ... more info

Guardian Music — Brueggergosman/Cleveland Orchestra/Welser-Möst(DG)Some UK listeners still associate Franz Welser-Möst with his unsuccessful years with the London Philharmonic in the early 1990s. Taped live in Cleveland earlier this year, however, this disc of Wag... more info

Guardian Music — Millennium Centre, CardiffBefore a note of Welsh National Opera's new Die Meistersinger has been heard, Richard Jones's production makes its first statement. The front cloth is a giant, Sgt Pepper-style collage showing mugshots of four centuries of G... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — You may not know his 'Ring,' but if you've seen 'Lord of the Rings' or 'Star Wars' you've entered his musical universe. You may not know his 'Ring,' but if you... more info

Guardian Music — Symphony Hall, BirminghamNext month, Andris Nelsons makes his debut at Bayreuth, conducting the new production of Lohengrin that opens the festival. The Birmingham audience that has supported Nelsons so well during his first two seasons as the City o... more info

Mercury News, California — The San Francisco Opera staging for this segment of Richard Wagner's four-part 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' cycle will be remembered for a long time because it is so thrilling, so clearly mapped out and so brilliantly sung by sopranos Eva-Maria Westbroe... more info