Not since the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival has LA experienced a citywide cultural festival as large and as significant as Ring Festival LA – which celebrates the LA Opera’s groundbreaking presentation of Richard Wagner’s epic four-opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Los Angeles Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
This is the first time all four operas will be performed in LA and is the first time that any Ring Cycle production has been created specifically for LA. The LA Opera has joined forces with more than 100 of LA’s cultural and educational institutions to stage Ring Festival LA, which will feature hundreds of exhibitions, symposia, concerts, museum shows, conferences and special events from April 15 to June 30 throughout greater Los Angeles. “Ring Festival LA will be a defining moment in the cultural history of Los Angeles,” said Placido Domingo, who stars as Siegmund in the Die Walkure Opera.
Events will be presented at MOCA, USC, UCLA, The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Gardens; J. Paul Getty Museum, American Jewish University, as well as area libraries, theaters and the Instituto Italiano de Cultura. Topics will range from “Maria Callas and Richard Wagner” to “Nietzsche to Star Wars” and also address Wagner’s anti-Semitism. There will be a U.S. premiere of a documentary film by director Tony Palmer on the Wagner family. The Los Angeles Conservancy will offer a tour of historic sites where some of the greatest German artists, architects and writers who sought refuge from Nazi persecution in the 1930s resided. The Ring Cycle performances are: Das Rheingold, May 29 – June 18; Die Walkure, May 30 – June 20; Siegfried, June 3-23, and Gotterdammerung, June 6 – 26.
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