Alex Ross on why it's worth spending the money on a Ring, even in this economy.I had the eminent pleasure of being the TA for a class on the Ring, back a few years ago. It was a mixture of Music undergrads and non-music majors, but even the music majors didn't know their Wagner, or at least no more than having parsed a few Tristan chord analyses ( Read more... )

NYT preview of the Met's new RingForget anything Bayreuth has done in the past decade (or more), this is the event all Wagnerians have been waiting for, and it's massively important. Although in academia (or at least among people who study the staging of opera) you won't find many of them left, there are still a lot of traditionalists out there ( Read more... )