Mark Your Calendars for Wagner’s ‘The Ring of the Nibelung’

Next year celebrates the 150th anniversary of opera’s most epic masterpiece.

"Brünnhilde Pleads With Her Sisters to Rescue Sieglinde," 1910, by Arthur Rackham. Get ready for the 150th anniversary performance of Wagner's "The Ring of the Nibelung." Public Domain

The summer of 2026 will mark the 150th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s four-part opera cycle, “The Ring of the Nibelung,” better known as the “Ring Cycle.”

Valkyries, giants, dragons, and the pantheon of Norse gods will be filling many grand stages, including those at Berlin, Dresden, Paris, London, Prague, Salzburg, Los Angeles, and, of course, Bayreuth, where it all started in August of 1876.