Exploring the Ring CD The Ring 6 inch tall soldiers in

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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

The Nutcracker Ballet 18" wooden nutcracker complete with three ballerinas dancing around the Christmas Tree hat and The Nutcracker Ballet inscribed on the front

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Exploring the Ring CD The Ring 6 inch tall soldiers inExploring 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.