Opera North’s highly-anticipated full performances of The Ring Cycle: Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen will come to Salford’s Lowry arts centre from June 13-18 next year.
The Leeds-based national opera company will perform a series of six full cycles of the operas which make up Wagner’s marathon four-part masterpiece.
Previously staged in annual instalments between 2011 and 2014 and performed to sell-out crowds, the Ring has seen Opera North’s music director Richard Farnes become a leading interpreter of Wagner's epic scores. He will conduct all six cycles of the Ring in 2016, performances which will mark the end of his 12-year tenure as the Company’s music director.
The Ring Cycle is among the greatest artistic and logistical challenges which any opera company can undertake, and touring versions are especially rare. Opera North’s unique dramatic performances created especially for concert halls have been highly commended by critics and audiences alike as one of the most successful operatic ventures of recent years.