The Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Fabio Luisi release a landmark live recording of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, captured over several concerts at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, in 2024.

Representing a rare undertaking for an American orchestra, this historic project is released in 2026, during the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s 125th anniversary season, which falls 150 years after the first performance of the complete “Ring” cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 1876.

Recorded by GRAMMY®-winning producer Dirk Sobotka, it launches a new partnership between Delos and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. “The Ring cycle is one of the deepest and most complex musical works ever written… Across the entirety of the story, you are transformed at the end,” says Maestro Luisi.

Issued worldwide by Delos as a 13-CD box set, this release marks a major addition to the recorded legacy of Wagner’s epic masterpiece; a significant achievement for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the history of American orchestras.

Solists:
Mark Delavan
Lise Lindstrom
Christopher Ventris
Sara Jakubiak
Daniel Johansson
Tómas Tómasson
Michael Laurenz
Deniz Uzun

Dallas Symphony Chorus & Anthony Blake Clark (chorus director)
Dallas Symphony Orchestra & Fabio Luisi (conductor)

Content:

Das Rheingold
Die Walküre
Siegfried
Götterdämmerung