James Conlon’s Pre-Performance Talks on The Ring Cycle: Götterdämmerung (part four)

LA Opera's Richard Seaver Music Director, James Conlon, explores the fourth opera of Wagner's Ring cycle: Götterdämmerung during LA Opera’s pre-performance lecture in June 2010. Maestro Conlon goes in depth on Götterdämmerung's characters, plot line, and musical themes. Listen to all four talks in preparation of LAO At Home's audio stream of Wagner's epic four-part Der Ring des Nibelungen, conducted by Music Director James Conlon. Commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the company's extraordinary first complete presentation in 2010, the Ring cycle will be featured in a marathon back-to-back audio stream of all four operas in one day, beginning at 8am PDT on July 25, 2020. (https://www.laopera.org/ring) Das Rheingold(www.laopera.org/podcasts) Die Walküre(www.laopera.org/podcasts) Siegfried(www.laopera.org/podcasts)