New. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Mark Delavan (Wotan/Wanderer), Lise Lindstrom (Brünnhilde), Daniel Johansson (Siegfried), Sara Jakubiak (Sieglinde), Christopher Ventris (Siegmund), Stephen Milling (Hunding/Hagen), Tómas Tómasson (Alberich), Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th May 2026
Luisi draws real dramatic intensity from his players and performers, and the cast - including Lise Lindstrom and Mark Delavan - are strong. But it is, for me, the all-consuming orchestral sound...
New. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Mark Delavan (Wotan/Wanderer), Lise Lindstrom (Brünnhilde), Daniel Johansson (Siegfried), Sara Jakubiak (Sieglinde), Christopher Ventris (Siegmund), Stephen Milling (Hunding/Hagen), Tómas Tómasson (Alberich), Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th May 2026
Luisi draws real dramatic intensity from his players and performers, and the cast - including Lise Lindstrom and Mark Delavan - are strong. But it is, for me, the all-consuming orchestral sound...
About
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 both digitally and as a 13CD 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.
Contents and tracklist
- Valentina Farcas, Kimberly Gratland James, Renée Tatum, Tómas Tómasson, Deniz Uzun, Mark Delavan (bass-baritone), Laura Wilde, Liang Li, Andrew Harris, Jamez McCorkle, Hunter Enoch, Štefan Margita (tenor), Michael Laurenz, Tamara Mumford
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra
- Fabio Luisi
- Christopher Ventris, Sara Jakubiak, Stephen Milling, Mark Delavan, Lise Lindstrom (soprano), Deniz Uzun, Alexandra Loutsion, Kathryn Henry, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Miriam Clark, Sun-Ly Pierce, Renée Tatum, Melody Wilson
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra
- Fabio Luisi
- Michael Laurenz, Daniel Johansson (tenor), Mark Delavan, Tómas Tómasson, Andrew Harris, Valentina Farcas, Tamara Mumford, Lise Lindstrom
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra
- Fabio Luisi
- Tamara Mumford, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Kathryn Henry, Lise Lindstrom, Daniel Johansson, Roman Trekel, Stephen Milling, Deniz Uzun (mezzo-soprano), Tómas Tómasson, Valentina Farcas, Kimberly Gratland James, Renée Tatum
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Chorus
- Fabio Luisi
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Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week29th May 2026
July 2026
Luisi draws real dramatic intensity from his players and performers, and the cast - including Lise Lindstrom and Mark Delavan - are strong. But it is, for me, the all-consuming orchestral sound world that lingers the longest.
May 2026
The primary reward for any aural accommodation here is the Dallas orchestra...dramatic distinctions often seem to come out of the cast members playing to their own strengths rather than attempting to live up to the once-in-a-generation voices of the Georg Solti and Herbert von Karajan studio recordings...Luisi emerges here as a major Wagner presence.
29th May 2026
Captured live at concert performances during 2024, the results are largely impressive and on occasion revelatory: this Ring is unusually light on its feet, with the Valkyries sounding properly airborne in their famous Ride and Siegfried’s Rhine journey unfolding with a similarly springy impetus...Come for Luisi’s firm but fluid hand on the tiller, stay to witness the crowning of a new hero in Johansson.
21st May 2026
With his clearheaded approach, a keen sense of Wagner’s operatic architecture, and a supple way with phrasing, [Luisi] is perhaps the most compelling reason for acquiring this frequently impressive set...Mark Delavan’s voice carries the right authority, his characterisation intensifying as the work unfolds. Daniel Johansson is a lyrical Siegfried, never straining, even if he occasionally sounds uninvolved.