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Longborough Festival Opera Names Harry Sever as Inaugural Ring Cycle Conducting Fellow

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Longborough Festival Opera has announced the appointment of Harry Sever as their first Ring Cycle Conducting Fellow. Sever will work alongside Music Director and leading Wagnerian Anthony Negus as the festival works toward the cycle in 2024. The appointment comes following an audition process which saw eight conductors work with Negus on the opening scene of “Siegfried.” The panel was {…}
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Opera Australia to Premiere New Ring Cycle Production in 2023

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Opera Australia has announced that it will premiere the world’s first fully digital Ring Cycle in December 2023  at Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC). The Ring Cycle was originally scheduled to open in November 2020, but postponed twice due to COVID-19-related restrictions and border closures. The season will feature three full Ring Cycles and seven performances of OA’s digital production {…}
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Staatsoper Stuttgart to Open First New ‘Ring Cycle’ in Over 20 Years

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The Staatsoper Stuttgart is set to premiere its new production of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” on Nov. 21, 2021. The opera will be conducted by Cornelius Meister in a new production by Stephan Kimmig. Goran Juric will star as Wotan with Pawel Konik as Donner and Moritz Kallenberg as Froh. Other cast members include Rachael Wilson and Esther Dierkes as Fricka {…}
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Opera Australia Postpones Brisbane Ring Cycle

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Opera Australia has been forced to postpone the Brisbane premiere of its Ring Cycle for the second year running due to the latest COVID-19 outbreak. The production, which is the world’s first fully digital Ring Cycle, was originally programmed for 2020 and was rescheduled to open at Queensland Performing Arts Centre on Oct. 29, 2021. However with a hard border closure {…}
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Bayreuth Festival Announces Cast Change for 2022 Ring Cycle

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The Bayreuth Festival has announced a cast change for its upcoming 2022 Ring Cycle. The festival management announced that John Lundgren will sing Wotan in “Die Walküre” and Wanderer in “Siegfried” in the new “Ring des Nibelungen” in 2022. Lundgren will take over for Austrian bass Günther Groissböck who also canceled this summer’s production of “Walküre.” In a statement, the {…}
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Opera Australia Struggles to Move ‘Ring Cycle’ from Sydney to Brisbane

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Photo: photoholgic Opera Australia’s rush to move its production of Wagner’s “Ring Cycle” from Sydney to Brisbane to avoid border closures hit a snag when Brisbane implemented a snap lockdown last weekend, according to an August 1, 2021 report by Linda Morris published in The Sydney Morning Herald. Opera Australia (OA) has a 10-day window to get the production to {…}
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Bayreuth Festival Announces 2022 Ring Cycle Cast & 2023 ‘Parsifal’

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The Bayreuth Festival has announced the cast and director of the new production of “Ring des Nibelungen” slated for 2022. Pietari Inkinen is set to conduct the new production by Valentin Schwarz with stage design by Andrea Cozzi and costumes by Andy Besuch. “Das Rheingold” will star Daniel Kirch, Christa Mayer, and Olafur Sigurdarson while “Die Walkure” Klaus Florian Vogt, Georg {…}
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English National Opera Announces New Ring Cycle; Metropolitan Opera Co-Producing

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The English National Opera has announced a new Ring Cycle. The company announced that Richard Jones will direct the production and will be conducted by Martyn Brabbins. It was also confirmed that the Metropolitan Opera will coproduce the production. The production will mark the first time the ENO stages the tetralogy in 15 years. The ENO will present the complete {…}
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Lise Lindstrom & Anna Louise Cole Headline Opera Australia’s New Ring Cycle

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(Credit: Rosie Hardie) Opera Australia has announced the cast to its upcoming Ring Cycle scheduled for October. The production, which is set to be directed and designed by Chen Shi-Zheng, was scheduled to open in 2020 but had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis. The production will now star Lise Lindstrom as Brünnhilde in the first two cycles. {…}

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