Sf opera ring cycle 2018
Keith Cerny, new director of the Dallas Opera, with comments on the Dallas world premiere of the new opera Moby Dick by Jake Heggie, April 2010.Ĭomments by Mark Delavan and Nina Stemme on Die Walküre, part of the 2011 Wagner Ring Cycle by the San Francisco Opera. According to an announcement today from SFO General Director Matthew Shilvock, Runnicles general music director of Deutsche Oper Berlin will conduct the three Ring cycles scheduled for June 2018. Since the time of Wieland Wagner (the composer’s grandson) at Bayreuth in the 1960s, most productions have done away with literal translations of the. He served in that capacity for 17 years, leading some 60 productions, including the Ring cycles of 19. Interview material lacking photos and not included in list to the left includes: My primary concern was to attend the complete cycle of Richard Wagner’s epic masterpiece Der Ring des Nibelungen, my only second Ring cycle apart from a 2004 South Australian Opera production. With exception of the first two acts of Siegfried (the third opera in the Cycle) - the SF Ring was among the most fascinating and innovative weve ever seen. Readers will enjoy this interview with one of this era's great dramatic sopranos.Īlso on our website are an interview with the conductor of the three SF Opera 2018 Ring Cycles Donald Runnicles, from 2004 and a review of his performance in 2008 conducting Die Tote Stadt.Īs the webmaster finds time, more interviews from past columns are being added to this page. A packed house experienced inspired singing last night as the San Francisco Opera launched its latest iteration of Wagners Ring cycle. Just added is an interview from 2011 with Iréne Theorin, who appeared that year as Turandot with the San Francisco Opera, and in 2018 has, on short notice, filled in as Brünnhilde in Wagner's Ring Cycle. Sylvie Bodorova - and a visit to Gustav Mahler's BirthplaceĬlassical Music Column for ANG Newspapers Preview SectionĬlassical Music Column for Bay Area News Group Preview SectionĬlassical Music Column for Bay Aea News GroupĬlassical Music Columns for ANG Newspapersīay Area News Group Preview Section Augand articles in ANG newspapers, 1997Ĭlassical Music Column for Preview Section of Bay Area News GroupĬlassical Music Column for the Bay Area News Group Preview Section, November 7, 2008Ĭlassical Music Columns for ANG Newspapers Preview SectionĬlassical Music Column for ANG NEwspapers Classical Music Column for ANG NEwspapers Preview Sectionīrent Assink on the SF Symphony 6.5 SeriesĬlassical Music Column for ANG NewspapersĬlassical Music Column for Bay Area News Group The Incredibles 2 SF Opera Ring Cycle 2 SF Opera Gtterdmmerung 1 SF Opera Siegfried 1 SF Opera Walkre 1 SFO Rheingold 1 San Francisco Opera 2018 Ring. In director Francesca Zambello’s revised staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, currently on display at San Francisco Opera, Die Gtterdmerung, the final installment of this 17 hour marathon, ends with a nine year-old girl placing a potted sapling of an ash tree center-stage as the orchestral music fades.