Wagner: Das Rheingold Live (The Rheingold)

Wagner: Das Rheingold Live (The Rheingold) is a live recording that captures the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Fabio Luisi, the prologue to The Ring (Der Ring des Nibelungen), recorded at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in 2024. Presented as a semi-staged opera-in-concert, the performance features a stellar cast including Mark Delavan as Wotan, Štefan Margita as Loge, and Tómas Tómasson as Alberich, alongside a 100-piece orchestra and full chorus. Luisi, a Grammy Award-winning Wagner interpreter, brings deep authority to this score — the result of years of preparation and a complete cycle that unfolded over four evenings in Dallas. His introductory note frames the Ring as a timeless meditation on power, love, and moral compromise, and this performance reflects that vision with clarity and dramatic weight. The album includes the complete German libretto with English translation, scene-by-scene listening notes, and a total runtime of 2 hours 34 minutes across 30 tracks. It marks the first installment of the DSO’s full Ring cycle on the Delos label. Mark Delavan as Wotan Stefan Margita as Loge Tómas Tómasson as Alberich Dallas Symphony Orchestra Fabio Luisi, Music Director