The Dallas Symphony Orchestra Release Wagner's Ring Cycle

25 May 2026

“The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s traversal of Wagner’s Ring cycle represents one of the most significant achievements in the ensemble’s 125-year history,” said DSO Ross Perot President & CEO Michelle Miller Burns. “This epic journey would not have been possible without the talented musicians of the DSO, our superb cast of singers and our Music Director Fabio Luisi, whose breadth of experience in both orchestral and operatic repertoire proved invaluable. We are very grateful to the generous patrons who supported this ambitious project and to Delos and Outhere for helping us share these performances with music lovers around the world.”

This project represents a rare undertaking for an American orchestra and is being released during the DSO’s 125th anniversary season and150 years after the first performance of the complete Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 1876. Luisi and the DSO recorded their live performances of the four operas – Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung – at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas throughout the year in 2024, culminating in full-cycle opera-in-concert performances that October.

Jennifer Johnson Cano appears as Schwertleite in Die Walküre and Second Norn in Götterdämmerung.