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"Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungs is coming to multichannel SACD, and thanks to the State Opera of South Australia and Melba Recordings, it is being done right ... I simply can’t imagine it being done better ... this is electrifying music making, an edifying production ... it is a true delight to witness the emergence of what surely will be remembered years from now not only as a legendary performance, but as an epoch-making recording as well. Musical Content: 100% Recording Fidelity: 100%"

Mark Jordan - High Fidelity Review (USA)

Reviews have been staggering for Melba Recordings’ SACD release of State Opera of South Australia’s production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, recently launched in the UK, USA and Europe. The level of international acclaim for the release of the first instalment, Die Walküre (MR 301091-94) is quite unprecedented! Describing the recording as “as ground-breaking as Georg Solti’s Decca recording … one of the most significant recordings of the decade … energetic …history-in-the-making … a production worthy of Bayreuth … and the most recommendable of recent Walküres”, commentators acknowledge Melba as a spearhead of the international new wave of independent record companies revitalising classical music recording.

“it will certainly be good to hear other parts of the Adelaide Ring Cycle in due course.”

The Gramophone

Wait no more!

 

Das Rheingold continues the Melba Ring series, presented in a handsome hardbound volume with colour production photos, essays on the opera and the history of the Ring in Adelaide together with a full libretto. This stunning new premiere SACD hybrid surround recording features the talents of the State Opera of South Australia, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and a stellar cast conducted by Asher Fisch.

 

 

 

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