Greg Hocking, board member and producer of Melbourne Opera (MO), is jubilant about the company’s forthcoming production of Wagner’s epic 17-hour Der Ring des Nibelungen, which includes the four individual operas of Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. In the midst of stage calls at Bendigo’s beautiful and intimate Ulumbarra theatre, he is quietly optimistic about delivering a first-class iteration of this universal story and the first ever to be staged in a regional centre.
Hocking says: ‘It is only the third time that an all-Australian creative team has staged the Ring in Australia, and it is the first time with an all-Australian cast.’
