Regents Opera has released an additional 100 tickets for its hotly-anticipated Ring Cycle. This is the latest move that the company has made to make this production more accessible to audiences. In October, the organization revealed that it would add an extra show due to “high demand.” The company will be showcasing Wagner’s famed tetralogy in early 2025 with one {…}
(Photo Credit: Frances Marshall, Marshall Light studios / Sara Porter) The Ring Cycle is a massive undertaking, one that requires an opera company with a built-in infrastructure to do it. But it is also the peak of opera production and one that every director / manager dreams of doing. So despite, the massive challenge it entailed, Regents Opera’s artistic director {…}
(Credit Steve Gregson) Regents Opera has added an extra performance of “Götterdämmerung” due to high demand. The company will be showcasing Wagner’s famed tetralogy in early 2025 with one cycle opening on Feb. 9 and running through the 16th and the second starting on Feb. 23 and finishing up on March 2, 2025. The added performance of the climactic opera {…}
Regents Opera is set to go on tour with a production of “Don Giovanni.” The famed work will be conducted by Ben Woodward and directed by Sarah Heenan. It stars Oliver Gibbs, Ashley Mercer, Christine Buras, Isolde Roxby, Justine Viani, Davide Basso, Alastair Ollerenshaw, and Andrew Tinkler. The tour kicks off on June 7 and 8 at Walcot Hall in {…}
Philip Modinos is set to take on the title role in Regents Opera’s performance of Wagner’s “Siegfried.” Modinos is joined by Catharine Woodward as Brünnhilde and Holden Madagame as Mime, along with Ralf Lukas who takes up the role of the Wanderer following the passing of Keel Watson. Oliver Gibbs, Craig Lemont Walters, Mae Heydorn, and Corrine Hart are also {…}
Regents Opera is set to present its new production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, arranged for 18 orchestral players and performed in the round at The Grand Temple, Freemason’s Hall, Covent Garden. Ben Woodward, who is set to conduct and arrange the score said, “Wagner’s Ring Cycle is the greatest work of opera ever written, usually far beyond the reach of {…}
Regents Opera, formerly known as Fulham Opera, has announced its new Rory Fazan directed staging of Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino,” featuring a new orchestration for 11 instruments by Ben Woodward. The show will run from February 16-Mar. 5, 2022. Verdi’s opera is the first production to be staged by Regents since its merger with Fulham Opera in autumn 2020. {…}