Exploring the Ring CD The Ring America’s first Children’s Poet Laureate

America’s first Children’s Poet Laureate has written all-new verses to accompany the composer Camille Saint-Saëns’s The Carnival of the Animals

and Leo Nucci star in this 2005 Vienna State Opera production directed by Otto Schenk

6 inch tall soldiers in glittering shades of champagne

puffy lace shirt

Exploring the Ring CD The Ring America’s first Children’s Poet LaureateExploring the Ring, with Perry Lorenzo, former Seattle Opera Education Director. Recorded for Seattle Opera's 2001 Ring, these talks, punctuated with Lorenzo's trademark wit, provide insight into the rich musical, dramatic, and historical contexts of Wagner's masterpiece. This CD set illustrates why opera companies from San Francisco, Chicago, New York even Bayreuth frequently called on Lorenzo's lecturing talents. 4 disc set. In English.