Wagner’s Ring

Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (Opera Australia) opens on Monday, 21 November – the first of three full cycles. Neil Armfield’s production was first seen in Melbourne in 2013. Pietari Inkinen, who led the Ring in 2013, is once again conducting. Many of the Australian singers reappear in the same roles, but there are some significant – and auspicious – new principals from overseas, including Amber Wagner as Sieglinde, Lise Lindstrom as Brünnhilde, James Johnson as Wotan, and Andreas Conrad as Loge. Arts Update, currently attending the dress rehearsals, will review each of the four operas during the first cycle.

Good seats are still available – some of them, happily, at half the usual price, thanks to the ‘generosity of an anonymous donor’, according to Opera Australia. C Reserve tickets formerly priced at $299 now cost $149.