Das Rheingold
Friday, August 17 at 8pm
Saturday, August 18 at 8pm
Friday, August 24 at 8pm
Saturday, August 25 at 8pm
Saturday, August 18 at 8pm
Friday, August 24 at 8pm
Saturday, August 25 at 8pm
Concluding the 2012 Festival Season is the start of a four-year odyssey for Union Avenue Opera: Das Rheingold, the first of Richard Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle. Condensed and reduced by English composer Jonathan Dove, this adaptation retains the essence of Wagner while making it accessible to UAO’s intimate setting.
A saga of epic proportion replete with giants, gods, goddesses and a dragon, Das Rheingold opens in the waters of the river Rhine, where three Rhine-maidens guard the river’s magical gold. Enraged by their scorn, conniving dwarf Alberich steals enough of this precious metal to forge a ring that gives its bearer unimaginable power. Meanwhile Wotan and Loge, two powerful gods, conspire to steal the gold as ransom for the goddess Freia who has been kidnapped by the giants. The ensuing struggle for possession of the ring drives this dramatic opera.
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| Gods | |
| Wotan: | Kevin Misslich |
| Loge: | Kevin Hanek |
| Fricka: | Elise Quagliata |
| Freia: | Joy Boland |
| Donner: | John Maynard |
| Froh: | Clark Sturdevant |
| Erda: | Cecelia Stearman |
Nibelungs |
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| Alberich: | Jordan Shanahan |
Giants |
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| Fasolt: | Todd von Felker |
| Fafner: | Nikolas Wenzel |
Rhinemaidens |
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| Woglinde: | Elizabeth Beers Kataria |
| Wellgunde: | Megan Hart |
| Floßhilde: | Katja Heuzeroth |
Directed by Karen Coe Miller
Conducted by Scott Schoonover
Presented in German with projected English supertitles
Friday Night Lecture Series
Join us for our Friday Night Lecture Series at 7pm in the Fellowship Hall presented by Glenn Bauer, Ph. D., Associate Chair, Department of Music at Webster University. Lectures are free and open to the public.
August 17 and August 24
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