What is the name of the first opera in Wagner's four opera Ring Cycle?
Longborough Festival Opera country house opera companies have their speciality, Longborough’s is its commitment to Wagner. LFO is the first privately owned opera house to be mounting a complete cycle of Wagner’s "Ring". After LFO’s acclaimed production of the reduced version prepared by Graham Vick and Jonathan Dove for the City of Birmingham Touring Opera company, Longborough is now producing a fully orchestrated version making use of its excellent orchestra pit, which is modelled on that at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus and accommodates 72 players. The 2007 season featured the first instalment of a new full-length Ring Cycle: "Das Rheingold" was sung in German
Washington National Opera opera's then-president, (Michael Sonnenreich), a bill was sponsored and passed in 2000 in the US Congress "designating the company as America's 'National Opera' ". The change of name to Washington National Opera was announced in February 2004. The Washington National Opera originally announced plans to perform "Der Ring des Nibelungen", a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner, entitled "The American Ring", in November 2009. However, in early November 2008 in view of the Great Recession, the company announced that the full cycle had been postponed. While the first three operas of the tetralogy have already been produced during the