The Ride of the Valkyries from Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Met
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Wagner's Ring presents the ultimate challenge for any opera company, and the
New York Metropolitan Opera's new production of
Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled between
2010 and
2012 and starring some of the greatest
Wagnerian singers of today, is among the most ambitious
Ring stagings ever mounted.
Already seen by over a million people in the theatre and at cinemas around the globe, the Met Ring was filmed live in high definition and is now being released on both
DVD and Blu-ray to launch
Deutsche Grammophon's celebration of the composer's bicentenary year in
2013.
With
Bryn Terfel, widely acknowledged as one of the finest bass-baritones of our age, performing his first complete cycles as the embattled god
Wotan and
American soprano
Deborah Voigt making her role debut as his disobedient warrior-daughter Brünnhilde, alongside international stars
Jonas Kaufmann and
Eva-Maria Westbroek as the incestuous Siegmund and Sieglinde, and last-minute stand-in
Jay Hunter Morris -- a thrilling new tenor from
Paris, Texas -- saving the day as the fearless but ill-fated hero
Siegfried, the
New York Times declared the cast "as strong a lineup of vocal artists for a
Wagner opera as I have heard in years".
To complement the complete
Ring cycle on both DVD and Blu-ray, Deutsche Grammophon is releasing two related titles:
Twilight of the Gods, a 2-CD compilation of audio highlights from the Met Ring -- featuring all the major stars of the production and such famous extracts as
The Ride of the Valkyries, Wotan's
Farewell, the
Magic Fire Music, Siegfried's Rhine
Journey and the concluding
Immolation Scene -- and
Wagner's Dream, a frank and revealing documentary about the five-year making of the Met's new Ring that has already been acclaimed as "simply the best documentary about the Met ever made" (
Film Journal), "a must-see for any creative soul" (Cinespect) and "destined to be one of the classic documentaries about opera" (
Philadelphia Inquirer).
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