Nashville Opera Presents
Das Rheingold at Belmont
On May 6th, Nashville Opera presented Richard Wagner’s epic music drama Das Rheingold in the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Belmont University. A not-so-humble expression of former Belmont University President Bob Fisher’s power and influence, the hall is billed as a “…state-of-the-art facility adding another diamond to Music City’s ring of world-class venues.”* It is quite a challenge that Director John Hoomes created for himself with this production, but in many ways it was quite successful. After a failed production that left him in catastrophic debt in the Latvian (then Russian) town of Riga where he was theRead More
