The Los Angeles Times has a nice photo gallery of L.A.'s Rheingold; the always insightful Tim Mangan in the OC Register has words.
Achim Freyer's production for the complete Ring carries a cool 32-million-dollars price tag in the middle of a big recession; curiously Freyer, in Hebrew, means "sucker".
We just need to figure out who's being suckered here exactly.