This preview of our third RING production featured the first two operas in the cycle, presented in full one year later.

Phillip Joll (Wotan) and Stephanie Blythe (Fricka) in Wagner's Das Rheingold, 2000. © Gary Smith

Phillip Joll (Wotan) in Wagner's Die Walküre, 2000. © Gary Smith

Margaret Jane Wray (Sieglinde) and Jane Eaglen (Brünnhilde) in Wagner's Die Walküre, 2000. © Gary Smith

The Valkyries with Brünnhilde (Jane Eaglen) and Sieglinde (Margaret Jane Wray) in Wagner's Die Walküre, 2000. © Gary Smith

Jane Eaglen (Brünnhilde) and Phillip Joll (Wotan) in Wagner's Die Walküre, 2000. © Gary Smith

Mark Baker (Siegmund) in Wagner's Die Walküre, 2000. © Gary Smith

Margaret Jane Wray (Sieglinde), Mark Baker (Siegmund), and Stephen Milling (Hunding) in Wagner's Die Walküre, 2000. © Gary Smith

The final scene of Wagner's Das Rheingold 2000. © Gary Smith

Phillip Joll (Wotan) and Stephanie Blythe (Fricka) in Wagner's Das Rheingold, 2000. © Gary Smith

Phillip Joll (Wotan) and Richard Paul Fink (Alberich) in Wagner's Das Rheingold, 2000. © Gary Smith

Freia (Marie Plette) and Loge (Peter Kazaras) in Wagner's Das Rheingold, 2000. © Gary Smith

Richard Paul Fink (Alberich) in Wagner's Das Rheingold, 2000. © Gary Smith