It is one of the pinnacle roles in all of opera: Wotan, king of the gods in Wagner’s epic “Ring.” It’s a nearly fathomless part that demands a beautiful voice, power, subtle acting, keen ...

The complex feelings between the brooding god Wotan and his favorite daughter, the feisty Valkyrie warrior Brünnhilde, come to a head during an intimate scene in Act II, when, in a rare moment of ...

There’s Wotan, who is the foremost of the gods; tracing the arc of his decline is certainly one of the Ring’s pervasive concerns. There’s Brünnhilde, chief of the Walküre and Wotan’s favourite ...