UAO Offers "Das Rheingold" Lecture Series & Opening Night Reception

Union Avenue Opera's production of Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold opens a week from this Friday. The company has planned a variety of educational lecture series surrounding this production as well as an Opening Night Reception that you will not want to miss.

Opening Night Reception 

Mingle with your fellow opera lovers and the cast of Das Rheingold following the opening night performance on August 17, 2012 at Tavern of Fine Arts, 313 Belt Ave (.65 miles from UAO).

Tickets are $25* each and include dessert buffet and two drink tickets. Visit the UAO website at unionavenueopera.org or call the box office at 314-361-2881 for more information. Reservation Required.

*Tickets to Das Rheingold not included in price of reception ticket. Das Rheingold tickets sold separately.

Want to learn more about Wagner and the Ring?

Free Educational Series

August 9 at 7:00 P.M.
Sublime, Beauty from a Sinister Soul? Wagner's music, his Anti-Semitism, and his relationship to Nietzsche

August 16 at 7:00 P.M.
On God, Gods, and Ecstatically Singing for Sex: Wagner's Love of Love in the Ring Cycle

Presented by Scott Stearman, Senior Pastor of Kirkwood Baptist Church, both lectures are FREE and open to the public. Attendees will be given a first look at the set and treated to a guest performance* by members of the cast of Das Rheingold (*August 9 only). Lectures take place in the Fellowship Gallery of Union Avenue Opera, 733 N. Union Blvd.

Free Friday Night Lectures

Friday, August 17 at 7:00 P.M.
Friday, August 24 at 7:00 P.M.

Join operagoers in the Fellowship Gallery for a pre-performance lecture led by Glen Bauer, Ph.D., Associate Chair, Department of Music at Webster university prior to the Friday night performances. All lectures are FREE and open to both ticket holders and the public.

Have General Admission tickets? Stop by the Box Office prior to the lecture to receive a placard to reserve your space in the theater before attending the lecture.

Want to play trivia and win fabulous prizes?

Connect to Union Avenue Opera on Facebook and Twitter to play Wagnerian trivia in the "Countdown to Wagner" leading up to Opening Night!

Das Rheingold opens August 17 and runs August 18, 24, 25 at Union Avenue Opera, 733 N. Union Blvd. All performances begin at 8:00pm. Production sung in German with projected English supertitles. Tickets may be purchased online at www.unionavenueopera.org or by calling 314-361-2881.