The Met's Ring wins the Grammy award

The Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording was given to the Met's new Ring Cycle DVDs. Renee Fleming also won the Best Vocal performance for her album Poeme.

The Ring Cycle to be released on September 11!

On September 11th the Met will finally release the DVDs of Robert Lepage's Ring Cycle, a week before it airs on PBS.  


The press stated that Robert Lepage's much-debated staging of Wagner's "Ring" cycle will be released on DVD and Blu-ray next month ahead of the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth in May.

Deutsche Grammophon said Monday it will issue the Metropolitan Opera's staging of "Der Ring des Nibelungen" in sets of eight DVDs and five Blu-ray discs on Sept. 11.

Lepage's production features a 45-ton set of 24 planks that form the scenery.

Alex Ross wrote in The New Yorker that "pound for pound, ton for ton, it is the most witless and wasteful production in modern operatic history." Anthony Tommasini wrote in The New York Times that while "the machine represents a breakthrough in stage technology," it was "the most frustrating opera production I have ever had to grapple with."

Conducted by James Levine and Fabio Luisi, the cycle stars Bryn Terfel, Deborah Voigt and Jonas Kaufmann.

The suggested retail price is $147.98 on DVD and $159.98 on Blu-ray.