San Francisco Opera hasn't announced when they're doing the Ring next, though since it's known that Eun Sun Kim will conduct, it'll be before her contract expires at the end of the 2030-31 season. Given the problematic financial environment for the arts just now, well, it could be a ways out. [Update: A couple of people have mentioned to me, and I have now seen with my own eyes, that Opera says it'll be in June, 2028. They're usually quite well informed.]
Still, as I wrote in my Santa Fe Die Walküre review, we're at a moment of generational change in Wagner singing. Let's take some time to speculate as to who might be in the next SFO Ring. I have absolutely no inside information on casting; these are strictly my hallucinations. Also, my lists are in alphabetical order, not the order in which I'd like to see these roles cast.
Wotan
- Nicholas Brownlee
- Ryan Speedo Green (singing his first this year, in Santa Fe and LA; apparently signed for the next Met Ring)
- Brian Mulligan (sang it in Europe, in concert, with YNS)
- Jamie Barton
- Tanja Ariane Baumgartner
- Raehann Bryce-Davis
- Irene Roberts
- Sarah Saturnino
- Annika Schlicht
- Tomas Konieczny
- Falk Struckmann
- Lise Davidsen (can SFO pay her fees?)
- Christine Goerke
- Anja Kampe (an impressive Isolde last year in SF)
- Camilla Nylund (an impressive Kaiserin in 2023 in SF)
- Tamara Wilson
- Vida Miknevičiūtė
- Irene Roberts (I know, I know, she's a mezzo, but believe me she has the vocal chops for this)
- Elisabeth Strid
- Suggestions from Charles Bush, hoisted from the comments, with my own comments added:
- Jennifer Holloway
- Elza van den Heever. By the end of 2025-26, she'll have been back at SFO for three productions, which makes her a strong candidate to be included in the Ring.
- Rachel Willis-Sorensen. I hear that she is aiming away from Wagner, but yes, she'd be great. Such a beautiful voice.
- Clay Hilley
- Brian Jagde
- Brandon Jovanovich
- Jamez McCorkle
- Simon O'Neill
- Russell Thomas
- Suggestions from Charles Bush, hoisted from the comments, with my own comments added:
- John Matthew Myers. I've seen him twice, in Gurrelieder, jumping in for Jovanovich, and as Iopas in the truncated Seattle Les Troyens. He's very impressive.
- Michael Spyres. HELL YES.
- Daniel Brenna
- Clay Hilley
- Simon O'Neill?
- Andreas Schager
- Stefan Vinke
- Suggestions from Charles Bush, hoisted from the comments:
- Klaus Florian Vogt (?)
- Michael Spyres (!?!)
- Russell Thomas
- Brenton Ryan
- Suggestions from Charles Bush, hoisted from the comments, my own comment added:
- Sean Panikkar. Oh, I wonder if he's a plausible Siegmund? He was wonderful in the L.A. Satyagraha and more recently as Stravinsky's Oedipus at SFS.
- Peixin Chen
- Jongwon Han
- Soloman Howard
5 comments:
I have heard through the grapevine that the SFO wants to try to beat the Met and remount the Zambello Ring before the Met's new Yuval Sharon Ring hits the stage (which I believe they are planning on full cycles of in 2030-31 after rolling out a Ring opera a season starting in '27?)
According to this month’s Opera magazine, SFO will do the Ring in June 2028.
Thanks! A couple of other people have mentioned that to me
More possible Ring casting:
Sieglinde — Jennifer Holloway, Elza van den Heever, Rachel Willis-Sorensen
Siegmund — John Matthew Myers, Michael Spyres
Siegfried — Klaus Florian Vogt (?), Michael Spyres (!?!)
Loge — Sean Panikkar
Those are GREAT suggestions, and how did I overlook Spyres? Adding them to the lists with proper credit.
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