Amazing opera performance! Looking forward to Orfeo - and especially next year's Ring opera.

 I am glad to see the beginning of the Ring Series. These tickets were a birthday gift. I brought my 19 year old.

 It was a marvelous performance. The singing was excellent, the orchestra rose to the occasion. I loved especially the fact that they took Wagner's staging instructions as the starting point, and didn't set it on a jet plane, or the orient express. Bravo!!!

 Excellent performance!

 I enjoyed the production, the singers, and the orchestra; however the mezzanine level was uncomfortable and hot. I was unable to enjoy the second half of the performance and had to leave.

 I'm not the biggest fan of Wagner's music so I needed some convincing. I was CONVINCED! This was a fabulous show. The voices were superb. The staging and acting was excellent, and the lighting and sets were quite good. Orchestra sounded great, too. This has to be my favorite Tacoma Opera production ever!

 See above. Loved it!

 The intimate nature was a nice change. The minimal sets worked when the singers were connected and convincing in their storytelling. The costumes/wigs were distracting; better to go with all black and a token piece than to turn a serious piece into a farce with the singers looking like cosplay plastic toys.The lack of a real LD and SM was abudantly clear. Fix the costumes, lights, and stage management to avoid a community theater quality, and you could have something special.

 Amazing A new community and family tradition has awakened. presentation of Das Rheingold, from the orchestra, to the costumes, to the fresh adaptations of each character… not to mention the voices and musicality. I have seen this opera more than once, in other cities, and never tire of it, but this? For a moment I was thinking, wait, in Tacoma? How did they do it? I guess the Ring was always known for its miracles.

 well done. Orchestra and performers all top notch.

 Amazing performance. The actors and the stage was extremely delightful. They represented the characters with elegance and firmness. It was truly a wonderful experience.

 This was a remarkable production. The singers did a fine job and the orchestration was remarkable--the smaller orchestra never felt like a compromise or "less than". I was surprised and pleased at the use of traditional backdrops rather than a more modern reliance on projections. I imagined that it harkened back to the earlier days of the Pantages and was closer to what early productions might have been.

 see above

 Loved it! We can't wait until the next one. Great job to everyone involved!

 We were pleasantly surprised at how well this Opera was performed. The cast was terrific and the orchestra complimented their singing. The directors knowledge of the ring cycle was evident with the staging and the performance.

 Fantastic