Four operas, sixteen hours of music: the Opéra Bastille presents Wagner's Ring Cycle in one go, and Calixto Bieito replaces the gods with boards of directors.

Two complete cycles in three weeks: Richard Wagner's Tetralogy occupies the Bastille for the entire month of November. Calixto Bieito transposes the curse of gold into a world of rulers and boardrooms, Pablo Heras-Casado conducts. Christopher Maltman traverses the entire cycle, from the political Alberich to the patriarchal Wotan. Tamara Wilson takes on Brünnhilde, Andreas Schager tackles the five-hour Siegfried. From the Rhine to dusk, a world collapses for a handful of gold.

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OPÉRA BASTILLE
Place de la Bastille, 75012 Paris – Metro: Bastille (Lines 1, 5, 8)
From November 6 to 22, 2026
Das Rheingold: November 6-15 (2:30 am) – Die Walküre: November 7-17 (5:00 am) – Siegfried: November 10-19 (5:10 am) – Götterdämmerung: November 13-22 (5:50 am)
Sung in German with surtitles
Tickets from €63 to €270 depending on the performance