Wagner's Das Rheingold: Highlights

There are only FOUR DAYS left in the 2022–23 season! Earlier this year, we saw the return of Wagner’s Lohengrin for the first time in 17 years, in an epic new staging by François Girard starring tenor Piotr Beczała in the title role. In this clip from an early dress rehearsal, Beczała and the powerful Met Chorus sing an excerpt from Act I. Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts. Join us at the opera house before our season ends on Saturday, June 10! There’s one more performance of Puccini’

Wagner's opera Siegfried premiered on this day in 1876! The third work in Wagner's epic four-part Ring Cycle, Siegfried's story picks up several years after the events in Die Walküre. Siegfried succeeded in taking the dragon's ring, and by using its power, learns about Brünnhilde’s enchanted sleep atop a mountain. With a kiss, Siegfried awakens his future bride... Enjoy Siegfried and Brünnhilde’s duet (Klaus Florian Vogt and Camilla Nylund) in "Ewig war ich, ewig bin ich". https://bit.ly/3WMzyfQ

9.9K views · 315 reactions | In this clip from the final dress rehearsal of Wagner's Siegfried, the Wanderer, sung by baritone Michael Volle, summons Erda, goddess of the Earth. The complete Ring cycle is on stage through May 11: bit.ly/2TTcEWA | The Metropolitan Opera | Facebook

26K views · 1.8K reactions | The immensely powerful and terrifying Funeral Music for Siegfried from Wagner's final opera in the Ring Cycle, Götterdämmerung, conducted here by Daniele Gatti in a concert from 2014. | Berliner Philharmoniker | Facebook