Opera Australia runs rings around rivals at 2014 Helpmann awards
Melbourne Ring Cycle and King and I win big, while Sweet Charity beats out Baz Lurhmann’s Strictly Ballroom and Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh take main acting awards.

Wagner epic rings up $15.8m
Wagnerites who descended on Melbourne last November for Opera Australia’s Ring cycle have boosted spending in the state by $15.8 million, exceeding expectations.

The Melbourne Ring versus the world
So how did Opera Australia’s Ring Cycle measure up against the great productions of history?

Opera Australia's Ring Cycle has helped the company build skills
Opera Australia's first fully-staged Ring Cycle is over. What next?

Opera Australia Ring preview: part IV
It is a rare experience to be in a theatre where the production has worked so completely that the audience is left in stunned silence.

Ring fever hits Melbourne
Australians are well used to the "Barmy Army", the fanatical fans who shadow the English cricket team, but another group of equally obsessive fans has landed in our midst - the "Ring Nuts".

Neil Armfield: One Ring to rule them all?
Australia's most respected director on what music means to him and how he learned to love Wagner’s epic.

Opera Australia brings Wagner's Ring cycle to Melbourne
How bizarre, how bizarre: Opera Ring-ins took over a corner of the city on Saturday to let everyone know that Wagner is on the way.

Opera Australia Ring preview: Part III
Siegfried (seen at the 13 November dress rehearsal ahead of the 25 November opening) is arguably the most difficult to stage of the Ring operas.

Wagner passion comes full cycle
Dress rehearsals have been held this week for the Melbourne Ring cycle, with full houses cheering at the conclusion of each hours-long performance.

Rock arena spectacular rings in the changes to Wagner's Ring
If a Viking's horn doesn't put your eye out, Brunnhilde's pointy breasts certainly will.

A lifelong love affair with Wagner's Ring
Michael Shmith traces a lifelong love affair with Wagner's opera The Ring.

A ring-side seat at Olympics of the opera world
Next week Opera Australia will present its first production of Richard Wagner's huge operatic cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Stuart Skelton: Have sword, will travel
As he prepares for his leading role in Opera Australia's new Ring, the Australian heldentenor talks Wagner.

Opera Austrialia Ring preview: Part II
At the dress rehearsal for “Die Walküre, football stadium cheers for the conductor and deafening applause for the orchestra are sure signifiers of an evening of quality music making.

The Opera Australia Ring
Six years of planning; twenty million dollars; thousands of hours of rehearsals, building and sewing; and it comes down to the final dress rehearsal for this first production in Opera Australia’s Ring Cycle.

Wagner and us
The Ring comes to Melbourne.

Susan Bullock: Lady of the Ring
Opera Australia's Brünnhilde talks about her rise to fame and fortune and Ring cycles old and new.

The Melbourne Ring
Neil Armfield promises a Ring of revolution with Opera Australia's production.

With this Ring ...
Opera Australia gears up for the Ring in Melbourne.

The 'Ring' cycle in Melbourne
Opera Australia’s Neil Armfield takes on Wagner’s epic opera.

Valkyries take over city streets
A brass band and warrior goddesses marching down Swanston Street to the tune of the Ride of the Valkyries will herald the beginning of the Melbourne Ring Cycle in November.

From Ring to lieder, there's opera in all
Susan Bullock - an 'accidental' singer with a giant reputation treads a fine line between Wagner and recital.

Fabulous Finn to helm the Ring
Lyndon Terracini has appointed a fast-rising young conductor to take the helm of the Melbourne Ring cycle, following the resignation last month of Richard Mills.

Finnish conductor to lead Opera Australia's Melbourne Ring
Pietari Inkinen has been announced as Richard Mills' replacement for its $15 million Melbourne cycle of Wagner's The Ring.

Anthony Negus to conduct Melbourne Ring?
British Wagner specialist is rumoured to be the name in the frame to rescue Opera Australia's Ring.

Mills and Ring singer blow up
A "SPECTACULAR blow-up" between conductor Richard Mills and a senior cast member of the Melbourne Ring cycle was due to Mills's inexperience in conducting the massive opera, it has been claimed.

Curse of the Ring fails to dampen hopes
The man who saved the Adelaide Ring in 2004 has backed Opera Australia in saying the loss of their conductor five months before Wagner's massive Ring opens in Melbourne is not the catastrophe it seems.

Saving Orchestra Victoria from the pit of despair
The deep E-flat that sounds the beginning of Der Ring des Nibelungen will be played in Melbourne in November not by Orchestra Victoria but by a special ensemble called the Melbourne Ring Orchestra.

Melbourne's multi-million dollar Ring cycle
Next year Opera Australia will present its first complete staging of Wagner’s epic opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Arts Centre in Melbourne.

Doubt clouds Ring production amid fears of withdrawal
Opera Australia's partnership with the Houston Grand Opera for its ambitious Ring cycle in Melbourne next year is in doubt.

Opera fans disgruntled over 'elitism'
Tickets for Opera Australia's Ring cycle, to be staged in Melbourne in 2013, went on general sale yesterday and all but sold out within hours.

Wagner fans fans go out on a ring for top tickets
Tickets to Opera Australia's Ring cycle start at $1000 for the full 16-hour, four-part extravaganza -- with no tickets available for Wagner wimps wanting to sample only a single instalment.

The Melbourne Ring ticket hunt begins
Opera Australia is about to release tickets to its 2013 Ring Cycle. But who stole the Rhinegold?