Siegmund and Sieglinde find themselves drawn together during a storm. Unbeknown to them their father is Wotan, chief of the gods, who through Siegmund hopes to retrieve a ring of ultimate power.
Following the cancellation of Longborough's 2020 festival, our 2021 production of Die Walküre was a socially-distanced concert production. This 2024 Die Walküre is a new production that will be seen for the first time as part of our 2024 Ring cycle.
All productions in the cycle are created especially for Longborough by Amy Lane, Artistic Director of Copenhagen Opera Festival, and Longborough Music Director and eminent Wagnerian Anthony Negus.
Don't miss Between the Ring, our standalone series of exciting events designed to fit around the three cycles. These include talks with John Deathridge, Dr Genevieve Arkle and Sir David Pountney; masterclasses and performances with Sir John Tomlinson, Rachel Nicholls and Susan Bullock CBE.
You don’t need a ticket to the Ring to book for these events.
Coming by train?
Hop aboard the Hedgehog!
In partnership with brilliant local bus service the Hedgehog, we’re now offering a shuttle service from Moreton-in-Marsh station to our theatre.
The service will depart from Moreton-in-Marsh 90 minutes before the performance start time, to arrive at Longborough shortly after the grounds open. It will return to Moreton following the performance end time.
Harry Sever is a gifted musician and a conductor with huge potential. His work with me as the Longborough Ring Conducting Fellow has been invaluable to the whole project
Anthony Negus, Music Director, Longborough Festival Opera
The Ring cycle is now sold out.
Der Ring des Nibelungen (known as the Ring cycle) is a story of gods, giants and heroes, and their struggles for power. Wagner’s cycle is the most epic of tales, a monumental work of art with a score that is searing, desperate and sublime.
Watching a whole Ring cycle takes place across a week. The 2024 Ring will be presented in three cycles:
Cycle I: 16 – 22 June 2024
Das Rheingold 16 June
Die Walküre 18 June
Siegfried 20 June
Götterdämmerung 22 June
Cycle II: 25 June – 30 June 2024
Das Rheingold 25 June
Die Walküre 26 June
Siegfried 28 June
Götterdämmerung 30 June
Cycle III: 4 – 9 July 2024
Das Rheingold 4 July
Die Walküre 5 July
Siegfried 7 July
Götterdämmerung 9 July
Longborough Festival Opera’s Ring cycle goes from strength to strength with this adrenalin-charged production
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Stage
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you’ll emerge back into the rolling Gloucestershire countryside transformed by the experience
★ ★ ★ ★ The Times
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a very fine Walküre that strips back everything to its essentials
★ ★ ★ ★ The Telegraph
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A full staging of Wagner’s Ring cycle in a converted barn in rural Gloucestershire once seemed eccentric. You may say it still is
★ ★ ★ ★ The Observer