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Ring Festival LA Partner Sculptor Charles Sherman with the first of his
Sunset Infinity Rings: The Ring of Inclusion. The work is
dedicated to LA Opera and the diverse people of Los Angeles.
www.charlesshermanart.com
"The California Art Club is honored to be working with LA Opera to
create, as part of Ring Festival LA, special exhibitions of artwork
inspired by the Ring operas," said artist Peter Adams, the
Club's President. "As the Club celebrates its Centennial, we are
thrilled to have the opportunity to capture on canvas, and in sculpture,
scenes from these epic operas, continuing the Club's tradition of
memorializing California's rich history in works of art that will be
viewed by generations to come," added Adams. The California Art Club
promotes traditional fine arts in the fields of painting, drawing and
sculpture by encouraging a dialogue between artists and art enthusiasts
through its exhibitions and educational programs.
www.californiaartclub.org
Spotlight on the Speakers Bureau
The Speakers Bureau, a joint program of the Opera League of Los Angeles
and LA Opera, is introducing groups throughout the area to the world of
opera. This fall the Speakers Bureau is bringing the magic of the
Ring cycle to Los Angeles with talks at public libraries across
the region. This special group of volunteers have undertaken hours of
training under the guidance of LA Opera's dedicated Education and
Community Programs team. The OPERA LIBRARY PROJECT began seven years
ago, continues to grow and now brings more than 90 presentations to
libraries all over the County. LA Opera's staff works with each
individual library to develop programs with elements from each corner of
the opera world, and this year, of course, it's all things
Ring. Talks have been developed to introduce the public to
Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung. Next spring audiences
will have the opportunity to hear all about Wagner's epic when
volunteers roll out a talk entitled A Look at the Ring Cycle, LA
Opera Style. "We are proud of this dedicated team of knowledgeable
volunteers who give so much to the public and who remain so dedicated to
LA Opera," said Stacy Brightman, Ph.D., LA Opera's Director of Education
and Community Programs. "In addition, we are pleased that libraries
across the region have joined with us as Partners in Ring Festival LA.
These volunteers and libraries are truly paving the 'Road to the
Ring.'"
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of
Germany with a global reach. The Institute promotes knowledge of the
German language abroad and fosters international cultural cooperation.
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USC Max Kade
USC's Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies is a research
institute with its own library and archive founded in 1984 by its present
director, Dr. Cornelius Schnauber, with the support of the Max Kade
Foundation, Inc., New York.
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The first "Road to the Ring" events have set a path to the
Festival and garnered enthusiasm from participants across the region.
Search lights brought people from miles away to view Charles Sherman's
Ring of Inclusion sculpture on Sunset Boulevard August 28. In
mid-September, artists from the California Art Club gathered downtown at
California Plaza and in Pasadena at Maranantha High School to paint
models enacting scenes from the Ring in plein air. In
anticipation of the September 26 opening of LA Opera's first-ever
production of Siegfried, the Speakers Bureau has been on the
road lecturing about the opera at public libraries throughout Los
Angeles. James Conlon, LA Opera's Richard Seaver Music Director,
discussed Wagner's monumental work at the Broad Stage on September 24.
Achim Freyer, Ring Director/Designer, conversed with journalist
Matthew Gurewitsch at the Goethe Institut on September 29th. Even at
this early date, Ring Festival LA is becoming the "talk of the town."
Road to the Ring Events
