The Ring

by Steve Ostrow

Overview

Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen has never been performed in Israel. Now, for the first time, the Israeli Government has decreed that, in keeping with the 2013 announcement of Tel Aviv’s being granted the 2020 Olympiad, and as a gesture of universal peace and forgiveness, Wagner’s Ring will be the key cultural event highlighting the games. Heinrich von Hoffmanstahl, the world’s greatest authority on the works of Wagner, an Austrian, has been engaged to conduct, and he has full authority to cast the singers. The Israeli Philharmonic will play with a huge international cast. Will the festival come off, or will powerful forces world-wide make another Munich out of the whole event? The PLO plots against it, as does the Hamas, the militant Islamic terrorist group and the Lebanese based Hezbollah. The clock ticks and the world waits.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781465332356
Publisher:	Xlibris US
Publication date:	11/25/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	768 KB

About the Author

Steve Ostrow is an expatriate American now living in Sydney, Australia. Steve spent most of his life in New York City both as an opera singer and as an entrepreneur, having built and operated the world-famous Continental Baths, where Bette Midler, Barry Manilow, Patti La Belle, Peter Allan and countless others got their start. Steve has sung with major opera companies the world over, including the New York City Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Stuttgart Opera and the Australian Opera. During his stay in Stuttgart in the 1980’s, Steve also was contracted by Bob Hope and the USO to put on shows for NATO troops and their families stationed in Germany. Now retired from the stage, Steve is the director of the Sydney Academy of Vocal Arts and is a vocal coach to many of Australia’s best young performers. In addition Steve is the founder of the MAG project and an Education Officer for the AIDS Council of New South Wales as well as being an entertainment venue consultant. Together with the If God series, Steve’s autobiography Saturday Night at the Baths Books 1 and 2 is now being prepared for publication. He has also just completed The Ring, a novel of intrigue, espionage and opera centering around the 2020 Olympics. He is currently writing Musings On A Life: Mine In Particular, a compendium of thoughts and observations garnered over a life spanning almost 7 decades.