Observances of the sesquicentennial of Gounod’s “Faust” begin this year – the 150th anniversary of the first version of what proved to be a revolutionary opera. To this day more popular than any French opera that preceded it, its influence on both...

As related in the first article in this series, the Los Angeles Opera is mounting three cycles of Wagner’s four opera “Ring of the Nibelungs” in May and June 2010. A year later the San Francisco Opera will present the “Ring” in an entirely different...

This website has promoted the idea of attending complete cycles of the four operas of Wagner’s “The Ring of the Nibelungs”. Californians (and opera lovers from elsewhere) will have opportunities to attend up to six complete “Rings” over the next two...