VideoThe three Norns from the Prologue Photo: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera The Metropolitan opera, in its final weeks before the end of the season, revived the last of Richard Wagner’s Ring ...

When the curtain rises on Wagner's Götterdämmerung (Dusk of the Gods), three Norns are spinning the dark threads of Wotan's fate. During the next four and a half hours Siegfried ...

The opening scene begins in near-darkness and is heavy in symbolism. It opens on the Valkyries' rock, where the three Norns (offspring of Erda) weave a rope of knowledge representing a physical ...