The Getty jumps into the ‘Ring’
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The L.A. Ring Festival -- a 10-week arts extravaganza that will surround Los Angeles Opera’s sequential presentation of its new, Achim Freyer-directed production of Wagner’s epic four-opera ‘Ring’ cycle -- is not due until spring 2010.
But with the opera company having already begun presenting the operas separately (“Das Rheingold” continues through Sunday, and ‘Die Walküre” opens April 4 at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion), it looks as if the Getty Museum has already decided to jump into the “Ring.”
On Saturday, March 21, the museum will collaborate with LA Opera to offer “Illuminating German Art and Opera,” a daylong course exploring the connection between the Getty exhibition “German and Central European Manuscript Illumination” and Wagner’s “Ring.”
Lecturers will include LA Opera music director James Conlon, Getty scholar Henrike Manuwald and UCLA prof Mitchell Morris. Pianist Catherine Miller, soprano Kathleen Roland and tenor Robert MacNeil will offer a recital.
The course fee is $60; $30 for students and seniors. Find more information at the Getty website.
-- Diane Haithman