Initially conceived in a roundtable of the elite of Los Angeles's high culture, to include more than 50 cultural and performing arts organizations all based in LA and officially announced by members of LA County's board of supervisors, tbe second largest city in America will in two years produce an intensive two-month tribute to the works not of a local heavyweight composer such as John Williams, but of a favorite son of Leipzig, Germany: Richard Wagner.

Prophesied to be "a defining moment in the cultural history of Los Angeles" by the Los Angeles Opera's General Director and powerhouse tenor Placido Domingo, Ring Festival LA, which is slated to begin on April 15th, 2010, will feature special exhibits and performances, symposia and other events all focused on the Los Angeles Opera's presentation of Wagner's four-epic opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen.  Read more »