A History of the Ring in San Francisco
Tuesday, March 23 at 5:30pm PST on Zoom
On-demand recording available to ticket holders 24 hours after airing
BUY TICKETS
BUY FESTIVAL PASS
Utilizing rarely seen materials from the San Francisco Opera Archives, this multimedia presentation by Director of Archives Barbara Rominski and Senior Manager of Communications Jeffery McMillan explores 140 years of artists and their creative approaches to one of the most ambitious works of art ever created.
Wagner began work on what would become The Ring of the Nibelung in 1848, the same year that gold was discovered in California. By the 1880s, touring companies had introduced Die Walküre to San Francisco stages and full Ring cycles soon followed.
San Francisco Opera unveiled its star-studded first production of the Ring in 1935, ushering in a tradition of bold and renewing engagement with Wagner’s vast, four-opera cycle that continues to this day.