The Helpmann Awards are Australia's version of Broadway's Tony Awards and London's Olivier Awards. The annual awards recognise achievement in live performance including musical theatre, contemporary music, comedy, cabaret, opera, classical music, theatre, dance and physical theatre.
The curtain goes up on The Melbourne Ring Cycle today, Monday 18 November, when stars of Australian and international stages come together at Arts Centre Melbourne for the biggest opera event ever seen in Australia. Audiences from across the globe and interstate are now arriving for Ring Cycle experiences destined to form memories of a lifetime.
The curtain goes up on The Melbourne Ring Cycle on Monday 18 November, when stars of Australian and international stages come together at Arts Centre Melbourne for the biggest opera event ever seen in Australia. Audiences from across the globe and interstate are now arriving for Ring Cycle experiences destined to form memories of a lifetime.
Under General Director Speight Jenkins' 30 years of leadership, Seattle Opera has become known as "America's Bayreuth," drawing worldwide audiences to its acclaimed productions of all of Richard Wagner's major works, especially to the company's signature work, Wagner's ambitious four-opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen. To date, opera-goers from 22 countries and all 50 states (plus the District of Columbia) have purchased tickets for Seattle Opera's 2013 Ring.
Seattle Opera's critically acclaimed production of Wagner's four-opera epic Der Ring des Nibelungen returns for three cycles in August 2013. Online ticket sales to the general public will begin on Monday, November 12, at 9 a.m. Phone and in-person sales will begin on Thursday, November 15. Fans of Seattle Opera on Facebook may secure tickets early, beginning November 8.
Today, Seattle Opera officially announces its summer 2013 production of Wagner's four-opera epic, Der Ring des Nibelungen, as well as the composer's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, which will open the 2014/15 season the following summer.