Birgit Nilsson, Placido Domingo, Jessye Norman, Rene Kollo, Fritz Uhl, Ben Heppner, Karita Mattila, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Norman Bailey, Jose Van Dam, Hans Hotter, Rene Pape, Christa Ludwig and ...

Georg Solti took over as music director at Covent Garden in 1961. His first new production there was Die Walküre; it was originally intended to be the first instalment of a complete Ring cycle, but ...

A collector's celebration of Solti's time in Chicago and includes bonus material of Solti rehearsing the Vienna Philharmonic. Included are works by Rossini, Mendelssohn, Bruckner, Wagner, Strauss, ...

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libretto by the composer. It is the second of the four operas that form Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The ...

Virtue and genius are, at best, loosely aligned, but there have been few nastier characters among the great composers than Richard Wagner. Stuff of legend … Birgit Nilsson as Brunnhilde in Vienna in ...

Renee Montagne talks to classical music commentator Miles Hoffman about one of the most important conductors of the 20th century: Sir George Solti. This Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of his birth ...