Arts and Culture: Download The San Francisco Opera's Acclaimed 2011 Performance of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle for Free

DOWNLOAD THE LEGENDARY 2011 SAN FRANCISCO OPERA PERFORMANCE OF WAGNER'S RING OF THE NIBELUNG FOR FREE ON MY CLOUD. 

4 Complete Operas, Over 14 Hours of Music.

This is for Opera buffs and anyone else interested in Classical Music. Back in June and July 2011, the San Francisco Opera put on a performance of  Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle -- 4 great operas that are considered a foundation of the classical repertoire --  that that was widely acclaimed. Here are some reviews:

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-06-28/entertainment/ct-ent-0629-classical-ring-20110628_1_lyric-s-ring-ring-cycle-third-and-final-cycle

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/06/opera-review-san-francisco-opera-presents-a-new-ring-cycle.html

The San Francisco Opera has no plans to put on the Ring again (they do it only about once every 10 years) and there are no plans to release this commercially.

I have been looking for a way to hear this performance and found one tonight. It broadcast on radio internationally in 2011. Some kind person on You Tube made these excellent radio recordings, and I extracted high end MP3 files, checked them for viruses of course, and put them on my Google Cloud. These are not copyrighted materials and were released in broadcast.

This took me a while to do but it is worth it, they are amazing recordings.

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LINKS

Information on Richard Wagner's 4 Opera Ring Cycle:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen

San Francisco Opera Press Release Pointing to Reviews:

http://sfopera.com/About/Press-Room/Press-Release-Archive/2010-11-Season/San-Francisco-Opera-s-2011--i-Ring-i--A-Box-Office.aspx

Stage Set from the San Francisco Opera's Performance of The Walkure 

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DOWNLOADS

You can download each opera here.:

These locations are on my personal Google Cloud Drive. I scanned them for any possible viral infections using Microsoft Security Essentials and Malware just to be sure before posting them -- there were none. 

Download time will vary according to your connection but it does take a while to download all 4 Operas. 

The Ring Part 1: Das Rheingold    

339 MB 

2 Hours and 38 Minutes

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1tD0yifdiZUTTM3WkRNSjhOTWM/edit?usp=sharing

The Ring Part 2: Walküre   
509 MB
3 Hours and 42 Minutes
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1tD0yifdiZUeUZhNllUSFVBOW8/edit

The Ring Part 3: Siegfried
537 MB
3 Hours and 55 Minutes
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1tD0yifdiZUMm9iMm4tdnU2YjQ/edit?usp=sharing

The Ring Part 4: Götterdämmerung
584 MB
4 Hours and 16 Minutes
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1tD0yifdiZUU1FLbXVnYjljY1U/edit?usp=sharing

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PREVIEWS

Here are video previews of each opera that were released by the San Francisco Opera in 2011:

Das Rheingold


Walküre


Siegfried



Götterdämmerung