The Canadian Opera Company - Performing the Ring in September 2006. Listen to the performances live on CBC Radio Two on September 12, 13, 15 and 17, 2006.
Essays and Articles of Interest at the COC website
The Ring Librettos - shareware librettos for the entire Ring cycle provided by Mark D. Lew (PDF - requires Adobe Acrobat)
Ring Performances Around the World
Bayreuth Festival
Annual Performances
Metropolitan Opera
Performed the Ring in spring 2004
Seattle
Opera Performed the Ring in August 2005
Interesting Links
Ring
in a Day - On Easter Monday 2006, BBC Radio 3 devoted a whole day
to a broadcast of Wagner's Ring cycle. The site has lots of information
on Wagner and the Ring cycle
The
Ring & I: The Passion, The Myth, The Mania - Winner of an Honourable
Mention at this year's Third Coast International Audio Festival, this documentray
explores the ways this unlikely work of art has inspired passion, impacted
culture, and invited controversy over the last 125 years
English
Translation of the Libretti Public domain English translations of
all four Ring libretti. Maintained by Mark D. Lew
Everything
You Need to Know About Richard Wagner BBCi's pages on the composer
Comments and Criticisms
Nice
but Dim Paul Robinson's Guardian article from July 2002
on Wagner's political beliefs
The
Controversy Over Richard Wagner Lili Eylon 1996 article at the Jewish
Virtual Library website
Wagner Society Web Pages
The International
Association of Wagner Societies
The
Toronto Wagner Society
The Wagner
Society of New York
The Wagner Society
of Washington, D.C.
The Wagner Society
of Northern California
Personal Pages on Wagner and the Ring
Richard Wagner Web
Site - maintained by Kristian Evensen
The
Wagner Experience - maintained by John Weinstock
The Wagner Library - edited by Patrick Swinkels
Wagner Operas
- maintained by Vincent Vargas
Norse Mythology
The
Encyclopedia Mythica's Norse mythology section
Norse
Mythology Pages by Nicole Cherry
The Encyclopedia
of Norse Mythology by Todd Reimer
The
Neibelungenlied translated into English by Daniel B. Shumway
The
Volsung Saga Translated into English by William Morris and Eirikr
Magnusson
Other Ring Articles
Star
Wars and Wagner's Ring by Kristian Evensen
Both
Rings Were Round, and There the Resemblance Eases A lecture on Wagner
and Tolken by Dr. Bradley J. Birzer (PDF - require Adobe Acrobat)
The
Ring and the Remenants of the West Spengler writes about
Wagner and Tolkien for Asia Times
The
Ring and the Rings Alex Ross compares Wagner and Tolkien in the
New Yorker.
Opera For Beginners
h2g2's A
History of Opera - An exploration of the evolution of opera
So
You Wanna Learn About Opera - An introduction to opera for beginners
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