A year after the shutdown, they're bringing it back. It was Friday, the 13th of March, 2020, when Lyric Opera general director Anthony Freud had to cancel the company's decade-in-the-making, mega-bucks project"a three-week run of Richard Wagner's four-opera opus, the Ring Cycle. The perfect date for what Freud calls "about as nightmarish a scenario as is possible to contemplate" for an o…
