If you live outside of any major city and it's opera houses it is near-on impossible to see or hear the Ring Cycle "live".(The Longborough Opera festival is perhaps one of the few exceptions). There are number of reasons for this but (and as discussed recently on my piece about the new "reduced" ring) cost and the logistics of finding provincial theatres able to accommodate Wagnerian forces are two important ones.
With that in mind, and given the financial difficulties large parts of the "arts" in the UK find themselves, it is pleasing to find Opera North, who will begin this summer with the first part of their four year Ring Cycle - in concert.
| Cast | |
Wotan | |
| Alberich | Nicholas Folwell Peter Sidhom (Sept only) |
Loge | Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke |
Fricka | Yvonne Howard |
Erda | Andrea Baker |
Fasolt | James Creswell Brindley Sherratt (Sept only) |
Fafner | Gregory Frank |
Freia | Giselle Allen Lee Bisset (Sept only) |
Froh | Peter Wedd |
Donner | Derek Welton |
Mime | Richard Roberts |
Woglinde | Jeni Bern |
Wellgunde | Jennifer Johnston |
Flosshilde | Sarah Castle |
Conductor | Richard Farnes |
Artistic Consultant | Dame Anne Evans |
Concert Staging and Lighting Design | Peter Mumford |
