Melbourne Opera

[7] In 2020 the company announced that it was embarking on a four-year project to perform Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, commencing with Das Rheingold.

It was the first independent production of Der Ring des Nibelungen to be staged in Australia in over 100 years, critically acclaimed and attracting audiences from Melbourne, interstate and from overseas.

[10] The cast included: Warwick Fyfe as Wotan, Sarah Sweeting and Dimity Shepherd as Fricka, Antoinette Halloran and Zara Barrett as Brünnhilde, Simon Meadows as Alberich, James Egglestone as Loge and Siegmund, Lee Abrahmsen as Freia, Steven Gallop as Fafner, Robert Macfarlane as Mime, and Deborah Humble as Erda.

Guest conductors include John Dingle, Richard Divall, Patrick Burns, Ben Hudson, David Kram AM, Armando Krieger [es], Anthony Negus, Aldo Salvagno, Warwick Stengards and Matthew Toogood.

[36] Directors who have worked with the company include: Bruce Beresford, Greg Carroll, Suzanne Chaundy, Blair Edgar, Hugh Halliday, Plamen Kartaloff, Robert Ray, and Caroline Stacey.