Join Chris Stacey and Daniel Balsam for this third event of our Ring Series. We view and discuss specific scenes from multiple productions of the opera Das Rheingold. 

Opera Synopsis: The Rhinemaidens are guarding magic gold. If anyone renounces love and then makes the gold into a ring, he will become all-powerful. The Nibelung dwarf Alberich does this, then enslaves his brother Mime and all the other Nibelungs. Wotan, the chief god, hears of the ring and descends to Nibelheim in pursuit of it. After being captured by Wotan and forced to give up the ring, Alberich curses it. Wotan is warned by Erda, the earth-goddess, to aovid the ring. He gives it — and the rest of Alberich's hoard — to the giants, Fasolt and Fafner, as payment for their having built Valhalla, the gods' newly completed fortress. Fafner kills Fasolt to keep the ring for himself. The gods enter Valhalla with no hint of the catastrophes to come. - Lyric Opera

Don't miss this evening of creative directorial interpretations and the music that Wagner intended to move the soul and not the intellect.

Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Time: 6:30Pm Central, 7:30PM Eastern, 4:30PM Pacific. For those in Europe the time is 12:30AM in London on August 27.

Location: Zoom Video Conference

Cost: Free

Photo Credit: "Barrie Kosky’s Das Rheingold at the Royal Opera House – in pictures," The Guardian,Tuesday, 12 September 2023. Public Domain.