Tickets for a complete ring cycle ranged from $190 to $3,420 each not including additional fees and donations. And so subscribers are those who give additional tax deductible donations above and beyond the cost of their tickets. Tickets for the ring cycle were not available to the general public.Īnyone wishing to buy ring cycle tickets had to first become a subscriber in order to be eligible like many arts organizations. Unlike the rest of the company’s productions, where you can buy single tickets for each performance.

And when they finally did in January of 2017, I went to their website to purchase a set. I added myself to their list to be notified as soon as tickets went on sale. In 2016, the San Francisco opera announced on their website that they would be staging the big kahuna of all operas Rihad Wagner’s ring cycle, a collection of four operas all performed in one week in the summer of 2018, two years in the future. I’ve always wanted to see one of their productions.Īnd even though San Francisco is far closer to me than New York, I never had the chance to go until this year. However, all the way on the opposite side of the country is the San Francisco opera. The met is the largest most well-funded and oldest opera company in America. So far, I’ve been able to see several operas by a few respectable companies, including the Houston grand opera in Texas and the Los Angeles opera in California, both of which are generally ranked in the top five opera companies in the nation.Īt the top of my list, of course, is the metropolitan opera in New York city. This often requires traveling to different cities or States either by plane or by taking a long road trip. I have spent years trying to attend as many live operatic performances as I can. Photo credits: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera, used with permission “Genealogy of The Ring, Summer 2018” Episode Transcript

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