Arranged by previous Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel, Wagner: The Ring Without Words is chronological compilation of orchestral highlights from The Ring Cycle. Within the 70-minute work are also key moments from the opera, including the famous Ride of the Valkyries, and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey. 

First he was in Munich with the Bavarian State Opera. Then he was performing the same role at the Bayreuth Wagner festival in a different production.

Marathons, not sprints…

Christian Thielemann returns to the CSO podium to lead Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony. The broadcast also includes Wagner’s Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde, led by Daniel Barenboim, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s ninth music director from 1991 until 2006.

Plus beloved titles from Puccini, Mozart, Verdi, and more.

Chosen by Ryan Speedo Green, George London stars as the Wagner’s accursed Dutchman in a performance from March 5, 1960. Thomas Schippers conducts a cast that also features Leonie Rysanek (Senta), Karl Liebl (Erik), and Giorgio Tozzi (Daland).

Presented at the Bayreuth Festival, this production features Andreas Schager as Tristan and Camilla Nylund as Isolde with conductor Semyon Bychkov.

Jaap van Zweden leads a mixed-repertoire program that spotlights the Philharmonic’s long-serving principal violist Cynthia Phelps.

20th-century maestro Thomas Beecham leads works by Antonín Dvořák, Jean Sibelius, and Richard Wagner.

The Met also said Tuesday that Nézet-Séguin’s contract had been extended by six years through 2029-30.

A London performance of the majestic story of Das Rheingold.

Christian Telemann returns to the CSO podium to conduct Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony. The broadcast also includes works by Richard Wagner and Mason Bates.

Orchestral demand for John Williams’ music has risen so much that his career as a classical musician is almost as fruitful as his film music work.

The broadcast features works by Wagner, Mahler, Stravinsky, Berg, Debussy and Carter plus some of Mr. Boulez’s own music.

We will hear the CSO’s ninth music director conducting Bruckner, Strauss, and Wagner.

Christian Thielemann leads the Dresden Staatskapelle in an exceptional performance of audience favorites.

Dashing Austrian tenor Andreas Schager returns as the knight Tannhäuser in Wagner’s ravishing opera of love, lust, and redemption.

A production of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, featuring Georg Zeppenfeld, Elisabeth Teige, Tomislav Mužek, Nadine Weissmann, Attilio Glaser, and Michael Volle as the Dutchman. Oksana Lyniv conducts.

Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and soprano Lise Davidsen join conductor Marin Alsop and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for the celebratory conclusion of the 2023 Proms.

“It is rare, not only for a male singer who’s not a tenor, but especially a bass-baritone to be able to do this kind of concert with an orchestra like the Chicago Philharmonic.”

Wagner’s audience-favorite Tannhäuser stars Endrik Wottrich stars in the title role.

Guest conductor Rafael Payare leads music by William Grant Still and Johannes Brahms before welcoming German soprano Dorothea Röschmann to perform Richard Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder.

Wanderers, farewells, and sightseeing; people are always on the go. This week, Bill calls up, “A Little Traveling Music, Please” from the pens of Handel, Smetana, Duke Ellington, and more. Reflections from such travels infuse themselves into their works, as we will discover throughout the week. We will hear selections from Beethoven’s Les Adieux, Schubert’s Die Schöne Mullerin, and Haydn’s …

Christopher Keene, the music director of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra from 1975 to 1984, leads works by Richard Wagner, Alexander Borodin, and Frederick Delius.

Whether you are looking to rev up for the race or drown out the din, this playlist of cacophonous classical music is for you.