My Ring Cycle Dream Cast

This is a response to the audience question in the past few Met Opera quizzes. Audiences were asked to cast their dream Ring and came up with pretty secure choices: Furtwängler, Melchior, Nilsson…

The Met quiz required that the cast be assembled from artists no longer active. I’m going to reserve the right to choose current/recent artists as well. In those cases where I’ve implemented the cop-out of multiple choices, I’ve forced myself to asterisk the artist I would choose if I had to.

I hope I can get John to weigh in but in the meantime, here’s what I’d do if someone died and made me Wolfgang (and gave me a time machine):

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