“Performing the entire Ring cycle poses extraordinary interpretive challenges–not just for me but for the entire company,” Music Director James Levine says. “But the rewards of a great performance are infinite. And it's very exciting to conclude our 125th anniversary season with a work I find to be unique and inexhaustibly rich.” As Otto Schenk's classic production of Wagner's epic work, first seen at the Met between 1986 and 1988, is revived for the last time this spring, Schenk and the Met's recently retired Technical Director, Joseph Clark, recall the specific challenges and rewards in bringing to life one of the world's greatest musical and theatrical works.