Wagner’s Ring Without Words

Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung told without a single syllable—but with all the dramatic power contained in the music. When the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Pietari Inkinen take on Lorin Maazel’s orchestral suite Der Ring ohne Worte (The Ring Without Words), you can follow the saga’s sweeping arc in concentrated form: from shimmering premonitions and momentous departures to conflicts, transformations, and doom. An entire operatic world distilled into 70 minutes of pure orchestral theater.