FREYJA ("Lady"), the daughter of Njo̜rðr (Njord) and sister of Freyr, is the main Scandinavian goddess of the group of gods known as the Vanir. Although no extant source tells how she came to the world of the...

First, the worst. While some principal singers in the new Vienna State Opera production of Wagner's "Die Walkuere" are great, others are only adequate.Unfortunately, it's the OK voices of Juha Uusitalo as Wotan and Eva Johansson as Bruennhilde that predominate in the third and last...