tetralogy

“Die Walküre,” the second opera in the tetralogy, is Gustavo Dudamel’s last grand project of his tenure as Los Angeles Philharmonic music director, and last weekend Walt Disney Concert Hall became an L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

Picture an opera made entirely of a mad scene, and you have “Foreign Experiences,” an installment in “Now Eleanor’s Idea,” Ashley’s tetralogy whose construction recalls another four-work saga, Wagner’s “Ring.”

From New York Times ● May 10, 2024

This one was a tetralogy: The Filipino champion and his Mexican rival met four times over eight years.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

Scurati’s rendering of the turbulent years from 1919 to 1925, the first volume in a projected tetralogy, is translated by Anne Milano Appel.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2022

"Richard III" is the fourth play of a tetralogy manifestly planned before the earlier members were completed.

From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.

“Richard II” is also our introduction to the Henriad, two tetralogies that trace the path of the English throne from one Richard, through two Henrys, to a final Richard.

From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2020

This blunts the company’s substantial ambition; the current alternating repertory is typical of an expansive approach that will be massively amplified next season with the eight plays of Shakespeare’s “War of the Roses” tetralogies.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2018

The second and more widely known of Shakespeare’s two history tetralogies, the cycle charts the tumult that roils the British kingdom under three successive rulers.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2016

There were great projects, vast and impossible, tetralogies, decalogies, pretending to depict everything in music, covering whole worlds.

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Cannan, Gilbert

Fifteen of Antiphon’s speeches are extant: twelve are mere school exercises on fictitious cases, divided into tetralogies, each consisting of two speeches for prosecution and defence—accusation, defence, reply, counter-reply; three refer to actual legal processes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various