Until relatively recently, productions of the Ring Cycle were restricted almost entirely to the largest opera companies which had the financial resources, stage facilities, and pit size needed for such a monumental undertaking. It can be daunting and has bankrupted more companies than any other operatic adventure. In the past few decades, however, Rings have been popping up in unlikely smaller locations, generally[...]
Whenever the Ring is staged in its entirety, it becomes a major international event—particularly at a world-renowned opera house such as the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden. From September 27 […]
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO), under the music directorship of Fabio Luisi, performed Der Ring des Nibelungen between October 13 and 20, 2024. The closer one is able to hear […]
The 2024 Bayreuth Festival season marked the third and penultimate year of Valentin Schwarz’s staging of Der Ring des Nibelungen. Like many current productions, Schwarz’s version opts for a contemporary setting, […]
It’s back! For the second time the Metropolitan Opera has revived Robert Lepage’s much loathed production of Wagner’s epic tetralogy, which is famously dominated by a vast mechanical contraption (“the […]