Atlanta Opera is building a Ring Cycle over the next several seasons – the city’s first – and has made an auspicious start with Das Rheingold – again, the city’s first. It is an exciting and promising project. Rheingold was staged by the organization’s General & Artistic Director, Tomer Zvulun. When he appeared in front of the curtain before the performance began, he greeted the audience as...
If the entire Ring Cycle now being mounted at the Chicago Lyric Opera has even a fraction of the intellect and panache that the first installment, Das Rheingold, displays, then the Windy City is in for a treat. Between the Cubs and David Pountney, Chicago is having a hell of a good Fall. Musically, the […]
We have received a press release from the Hartford [CT] Wagner Festival, announcing a new production of Das Rheingold in August 2014 at the Roberts Theater of the Kingswood Oxford School in West Hartford, CT. The plan is to mount one drama each summer and to present two complete Ring Cycles each year beginning in […]
Halfway through the Ring at the Seattle Opera, there is nothing to report but bliss. The settings are lushly romantic but at the same time not clichéd or illustrative. Great handsome vistas, massive rocks, gnarled tree limbs, impenetrable forests — they invite you to lose your bearings and enter into a world of mythical creatures […]
The action of The Rheingold is the reformation of a contract – that is, two parties to a contract agree to reform that contract to provide for terms different from those originally agreed upon, but nevertheless satisfactory to them both. This contract is reformed with the advice of counsel who, in trying circumstances, acts unethically. […]
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