Fabio Luisi and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Release Wagner’s Ring Cycle
"The Dallas Symphony Orchestra and its music director Fabio Luisi will release a complete recording of Wagner‘s Der Ring des Nibelungen on Delos, the American label of Outhere Music, with worldwide availability arriving on May 22. The 13-CD box set goes on sale in the United States a week earlier, on May 15, and is available to pre-order on Amazon. A two-week digital exclusive on Apple Music Classical opens on May 8. The early streaming window launches a year of programming the platform is devoting to the 150th anniversary of the Ring‘s first performances at Bayreuth.
"For Luisi, the project caps a long association with Wagner’s tetralogy. He led the Ring during nine years at the head of Zurich Opera and at the Metropolitan Opera, where he served six seasons as principal guest conductor and won a Grammy for his account of Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. “Wagner’s Ring cycle has been one of the most important and meaningful projects of my time with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra,” he said in announcing the release. “The Ring holds a special and profound place in the history of music, and for me it has always been a deeply personal, transformational experience.”
"The cycle is available to stream exclusively on Apple Music Classical from May 8 ahead of the worldwide Delos release on May 22."