Rienzi in April/May 2009 and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Oper Leipzig in April/May 2010. In July 2013, the bicentennial year of Wagner's birth, performances of all three of Wagner's early operas, including "Rienzi", took place for the first time at Bayreuth, at the Oberfrankenhalle. This performance trimmed some parts, including the second-act ballet. The Australian premiere was a concert performance by Melbourne Opera in December 2013, as part of the bicentennial celebrations. The opera opens with a substantial overture which begins with a trumpet call (which in act 3 we learn is the war call of the Colonna family)
The Complete Town Hall Concert event and subsequent album being considered a disaster. Much of the music intended for the concert/recording was finally realized by conductor Gunther Schuller in a concert in 1989 as "Epitaph". The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars and stated, "Charles Mingus's "Town Hall Concert" has long been considered a famous fiasco, and the original United Artists LP (which contained just 36 minutes of music and did not bother identifying the personnel) made matters worse. But this 1994 Blue Note CD does its best to clean up the mess". "All compositions by Charles Mingus except as indicated"