Dress rehearsal gets underway for Los Angeles Opera’s new production of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold,” opening Saturday (Feb. 21) at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Gordon Hawkins, center, stars as Alberich. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
Gordon Hawkins, as a haunting Alberich, in Los Angeles Opera’s production of “Das Rheingold.” (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
Vitalij Kowaljow is Wotan in Das Rheingold, the first opera of Richard Wagners four-part saga The Ring of the Nibelung. Die Walküre also opens this season while Siegfried and Götterdämmerung will be staged next season. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
Michelle DeYoung stars as Fricka. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
Arnold Bezuyen is Loge in what, in total, will be the most expensive production in the companys 22-year history. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
Beau Gibson, left, stars as Froh, with Wayne Tigges as Donner -- in a scene with Vitalij Kowaljow as Wotan and Michelle DeYoung as Fricka. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
Graham Clark takes the stage as Mime. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
Jill Grove as a towering, rainbow-streaked Erda. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
The cast in dress rehearsal including Graham Clark as Mime, left, and Arnold Bezuyen as Loge, in red. (Lawrence K. Ho/Los Angeles Times)
Fantasy takes wing in the staging of Los Angeles Opera’s “Das Rheingold” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
