- Daniel Berenboim conducts the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra in the third installment of Wagner's Nibelungen tetrology.  - Soprano Nina Stemme, nearly unrivaled among contemporary Brünnhilde's, and Canadian heldentenor Lance Ryan, much lauded for his many Siegfried performances in but a few short years, star in this production.  - Guy Cassiers' staging has been called 'a visually compelling production'- The Opera Critic