Covent Garden Ring Cycles
Details of the Ring cycles at the Royal Opera House for autumn 2007 are now official.
There are to be three cycles, each spread over eight days: the first starts on Tuesday 2 October, the second on Wednesday 17 October and the third on Friday 26 October.
The casting is much the same as in the individual performances that have taken place so far. Lisa Gasteen sings Bruennhilde, John Treleaven Siegfried. Bryn Terfel sings Wotan in cycles 1 and 3 and John Tomlinson sings the part in cycle 2. Domingo sings Siegmund in cycles 2 and 3 and Simon O'Neill in cycle 1. Some other notable casting is Philip Langridge as Loge, Mihoko Fujimura as Waltraute and Eva-Maria Westbroek (who has just triumphed as Katerina in "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk") as Sieglinde.
Antonio Pappano will conduct all three cycles.
Public booking opens on 14 November. Ticket prices for a complete cycle range from £32 (standing in the Lower Slips) to £850 (sitting in the stalls).
I have seen each of the four operas as this Ring has been assembled. The musical standards have been extremely high, with outstanding playing from the orchestra and a notable contribution from Terfel, singing his first Wotans. The production (Keith Warner) has been less universally praised but I found that the good very much outweighed the bad.
It is thirty years since I last saw a Ring Cycle in one week, so I think I will treat myself next autumn...
There are to be three cycles, each spread over eight days: the first starts on Tuesday 2 October, the second on Wednesday 17 October and the third on Friday 26 October.
The casting is much the same as in the individual performances that have taken place so far. Lisa Gasteen sings Bruennhilde, John Treleaven Siegfried. Bryn Terfel sings Wotan in cycles 1 and 3 and John Tomlinson sings the part in cycle 2. Domingo sings Siegmund in cycles 2 and 3 and Simon O'Neill in cycle 1. Some other notable casting is Philip Langridge as Loge, Mihoko Fujimura as Waltraute and Eva-Maria Westbroek (who has just triumphed as Katerina in "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk") as Sieglinde.
Antonio Pappano will conduct all three cycles.
Public booking opens on 14 November. Ticket prices for a complete cycle range from £32 (standing in the Lower Slips) to £850 (sitting in the stalls).
I have seen each of the four operas as this Ring has been assembled. The musical standards have been extremely high, with outstanding playing from the orchestra and a notable contribution from Terfel, singing his first Wotans. The production (Keith Warner) has been less universally praised but I found that the good very much outweighed the bad.
It is thirty years since I last saw a Ring Cycle in one week, so I think I will treat myself next autumn...
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