The first-ever release of the legendary Seattle Opera Ring is now available for digital download from iTunes (iTunes.com/SeattleOpera). It is the first recording of Wagner’s epic tome to be offered with an interactive iTunes LP. Captured live at Seattle Opera’s 2013 production, the 14-volume recording features Seattle Ring veterans Greer Grimsley (Wotan); Stephanie Blythe (Fricka, Second Norn, and Waltraute in Götterdämmerung); Stuart Skelton (Siegmund); Margaret Jane Wray (Sieglinde and Third Norn); Richard Paul Fink (Alberich); newcomers Alwyn Mellor (Brünnhilde) and Stefan Vinke (Siegfried); the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Seattle Opera Chorus, conducted by Asher Fisch.

The Seattle Opera Ring iTunes LP includes complete librettos of each of the Ring’s four operas in original German with English translations, synopses of the four operas, an extensive photo gallery, essays from Seattle Opera General Director Speight Jenkins, and video trailers. The Seattle Opera’s 2013 Ring was hailed for “the Technicolor brilliance and sylvan detail of the production” (Opera News).

The Seattle Opera Ring is available now at iTunes.com/SeattleOpera.

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For further information, image or interview requests, please contact Melanne Mueller, melanne@avierecords.com, 917 907 2785