![]() ![]() The next reference to water is in the last act Gotterdammerung, where the composer referenced a waterborne crossing for causing Hagen – Alberich’s wicked son – to suffer a miserable drowning.īeginning Tuesday, May 1 at 10 a.m., tickets to individual performances within Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen ( The Ring of the Nibelung), will be available for purchase. ![]() And since the 2011, SFO has been regarded as one of the world’s leading presenters of this timeless epic.įerry riders have a special reason to appreciate the symbolism contained in this timeless work.Īs the curtain lifts for the first act of of Das Rheingold we see the bottom of the Rhine River, which inexorably winds through the drama. Since San Francisco Opera’s first staging of the torturous tetralogy in 1935 and subsequent mountings in 1972, 1985, 1990, 1999. As Cultural Currents readers know the last time the San Francisco Opera staged the Three Cycles of the Ring was seven years ago.īut the Bay Area’s infatuation with the Richard Wagner’s masterpiece dates back to 1900 when the touring Metropolitan Opera produced the four-part work at San Francisco’s Grand Opera House on Mission Street (between 3rd and 4th Streets destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire). ![]()
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