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Category: Das Rheingold

  • SF Opera’s Das Rheingold Media Round-Up

    Summer Season Press Release | SF Opera’s Official Site | Francesca Zambello’s Official Site for this Production | Bloomberg Preview Summer Season Previews: San Francisco Chronicle | Sentinel | Examiner Interviews of Former Adler Fellow Mark Delavan (Wotan): KQED’s The Do List [MP3] | San Francisco Chronicle | San Jose Mercury News | Contra Costa Times Events: Opera Insight Panel Discussion (June 2, 2008) | Gold Rush…

  • The Met’s 2008-2009 Season

    September 22 2008: Gala September 23- October 16 2008: SalomeSeptember 24- October 9 2008: La GiocondaSeptember 27-December 19 2008: Don GiovanniOctober 3-25 2008: Lucia di LammermoorOctober 13- November 13 2008: Doctor AtomicOctober 20- November 20 2008: La TraviataOctober 24- November 22 2008: Madama Butterfly November 7- December 4 2008: La Damnation de FaustNovember 21- December…

  • LA Opera’s 2008-2009 Season

    September 6-26 2008: Il TritticoSeptember 7-26 2008: The FlyOctober 2-18 2008: Madama ButterflyNovember 15- December 14 2008: CarmenJanuary 10-25 2009: Die ZauberflöteFebruary 21- March 15 2009: Das RheingoldApril 4-25 2009: Die WalküreApril 11-26 2009: Die VögelMay 21- June 21 2009: La Traviata Two U.S. premieres and the company's first Der Ring des Nibelungen. Quite a…

  • WNO Opera’s 2009 Ring Cycle

    Washington National Opera is presenting a complete Ring Cycle for the first time in November of 2009. Dubbed the "American Ring," this co-production with San Francisco Opera is directed by Francesca Zambello. November 2-16 2009: Das RheingoldNovember 3-17 2009: Die WalküreNovember 5-19 2009: SiegfriedNovember 7-21 2009: Götterdämmerung Official Site | Press Release [PDF]

  • Seattle Opera’s 2009 Ring Cycle

    Seattle Opera is putting on the Stephen Wadsworth/Thomas Lynch production of Der Ring des Nibelungen for the third time in August 2009. August 9-25 2009: Das RheingoldAugust 10-26 2009: Die WalküreAugust 12-28 2009: SiegfriedAugust 14-30 2009: Götterdämmerung Official Site | Ring Cast Press Release [PDF]

  • Der Ring des Nibelungen at Seattle Opera

    Seattle Opera is especially dedicated to the works of Richard Wagner. The founder of this opera company, Glynn Ross, apparently adored Wagner at a time in which his works were generally neglected by most American opera houses. Seattle Opera has built its reputation on staging Wagner in a traditional manner, a reaction to the ultra-minimalism…

  • Wallala weiala weia!

    My friends, I have made a disturbing discovery of late. After some years of listening to operas, I finally went to hear a Wagner opera, Das Rheingold, last Wednesday. The music was sublime. In general, I do not like music past Beethoven, and my favorite opera composer is undoubtedly Mozart. So I was surprised I…