The Wagner Cycles with Dresdner Festspielorchester and Kent Nagano

The Dresden Music Festival’s unique project, ‘The Wagner Cycles’, demonstrates that Richard Wagner’s famous ‘Ring’ cycle can still yield entirely new auditory experiences. Since 2023, in close collaboration with a renowned team of scholars, one part of the tetralogy has been prepared each year and performed in Dresden, as well as on tour in Europe’s major music centres, using historically informed performance practices. The result has delighted audiences and critics alike. The New York Times, for example, included *Die Walküre* from Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw on its list of the world’s best performances of 2024. A transparent orchestral sound and the singers’ declamatory precision are sure to be guaranteed in *Götterdämmerung* as well. For the dramatic finale, the specially founded Dresden Festival Choir will also add an impressive sonic dimension to this large-scale project.

The Wagner Cycles

A project of the Dresden Music Festival