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SUMMER 2028 OPERA SEASON: DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN
CYCLE 1: June 13 (7:30 p.m.); June 14 (6 p.m.); June 16 (6 p.m.); June 18 (1 p.m.)
CYCLE 2: June 20 (7:30 p.m.); June 21 (6 p.m.); June 23 (6 p.m.); June 25 (1 p.m.)
CYCLE 3: June 27 (7:30 p.m.); June 28 (6 p.m.); June 30 (6 p.m.); July 2 (1 p.m.)
All cycle performances are presented on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday
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Conductor | Eun Sun Kim |
Director | Francesca Zambello |
Set Designer | Michael Yeargan |
Costume Designer | Catherine Zuber |
Original Lighting Designer | Mark McCullough |
Revival Lighting Designer | A.J. Guban |
Original Projections | Jan Hartley |
New Projections, Remounted by | S. Katy Tucker |
Choreographer | Denni Sayers |
Associate Director (Das Rheingold, Siegried) | Denni Sayers |
Associate Director (Die Walküre, Götterdämmerung) | Christian Rath |
Chorus Director | John Keene |
Co-production with Washington National Opera
Sung in German with English supertitles
DAS RHEINGOLD by Richard Wagner
June 13 (7:30 p.m.), 20 (7:30 p.m.) and 27 (7:30 p.m.), 2028
Approximate running time: | 2 hours, 35 minutes without intermission |
World Premiere: | Munich; September 22, 1869 |
First SF Opera Performance: | November 1, 1935 |
Most Recent SF Opera Performance: | June 2018 |
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Cast: |
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Wotan | Brian Mulligan |
Loge | Brenton Ryan |
Alberich | Falk Struckmann |
Fricka | Judit Kutasi |
Erda | Sadie Cheslak |
Mime | Zhengyi Bai |
Fasolt | Kwangchul Youn |
Fafner | John Relyea |
Froh | Christopher Sokolowski |
Donner | Lauri Vasar |
Woglinde | Sofia Gotch |
Wellgunde | Laura Krumm |
Flosshilde | Taylor Raven |
San Francisco Opera Orchestra
DIE WALKÜRE by Richard Wagner
June 14 (6 p.m.), 21 (6 p.m.) and 28 (6 p.m.), 2028
Approximate running time: | 4 hours, 30 minutes with two intermissions |
World Premiere: | Munich; June 26, 1870 |
First SF Opera Performance: | November 4, 1935 |
Most Recent SF Opera Performance: | June 2018 |
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Cast: |
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Brünnhilde | Tamara Wilson |
Wotan | Brian Mulligan |
Sieglinde | Julie Adams |
Siegmund | Christopher Sokolowski |
Fricka | Judit Kutasi |
Hunding | Kwangchul Youn |
San Francisco Opera Orchestra
SIEGFRIED by Richard Wagner
June 16 (6 p.m.), 23 (6 p.m.) and 30 (6 p.m.), 2028
Approximate running time: | 5 hours with two intermissions |
World Premiere: | Bayreuth; August 16, 1876 |
First SF Opera Performance: | November 6, 1935 |
Most Recent SF Opera Performance: | June 2018 |
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Cast: |
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Siegfried | Simon O’Neill |
Brünnhilde | Tamara Wilson |
Mime | Zhengyi Bai |
The Wanderer (Wotan) | Brian Mulligan |
Alberich | Falk Struckmann |
Fafner | John Relyea |
Erda | Sadie Cheslak |
Forest Bird | Sofia Gotch |
San Francisco Opera Orchestra
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG by Richard Wagner
June 18 (1 p.m.), 25 (1 p.m.) and July 2 (1 p.m.), 2028
Approximate running time: | 5 hours, 15 minutes with two intermissions |
World Premiere: | Bayreuth, August 17, 1876 |
First SF Opera Performance: | November 9, 1935 |
Most Recent SF Opera Performance: | June/July 2018 |
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Cast: |
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Brünnhilde | Tamara Wilson |
Siegfried | Simon O’Neill |
Gunther | Lauri Vasar |
Hagen | John Relyea |
Waltraute | Annika Schlicht |
Gutrune | Julie Adams |
Alberich | Falk Struckmann |
First Norn | Sadie Cheslak |
Second Norn | Annika Schlicht |
Third Norn | Mary Hoskins |
Woglinde | Sofia Gotch |
Wellgunde | Laura Krumm |
Flosshilde | Taylor Raven |
San Francisco Opera Orchestra and San Francisco Opera Chorus
4 comments:
I'm looking forward to hearing Kim conduct the Ring. In the past, I've liked Mulligan, Struckmann, Kutasi, Relyea, Adams, Schlicht, Bai, Krumm, and Raven. When I saw Wilson as Brünnhilde last year (in Paris), she sounded great, and was game for the staging.
Are you planning to see the Paris Opera Ring next month?
Alas, no. My summer travels (5 weeks, 16 performances) were my foreign travel for 2026. :) Also, I am reviewing Lincoln in the Bardo and Jenufa at the Met!
I liked Wilson a lot in Santa Fe last year and have liked most of those singers. Kutasi was kinda pitchy in Ballo but her Ortrud was memorably good.
I wish I liked O'Neill more. I seem to be an outlier in my reaction to his timbre. I wouldn't skip the cycle on one singer alone, but he wouldn't be my first choice.
I understand about the travel limitations. If only we could fly everywhere we want to be. Congrats on reviewing Lincoln in the Bardo and Jenufa at the Met. Wow!
I did want your thoughts on the Paris production. Maybe another time. Director is Bieito. I saw Walküre last year and did not like it. I did enjoy most of the singers (especially Wilson, van den Heever, Groissböck, de Barbeyrac) but thought the staging used tech more for show than to make any profound comment. There was so much of it (large screens of live video of action we could already see on stage, plus the Boston Dynamics robot dog), I found it a distraction and a barrier between me and the work.
I can understand your response to O'Neill. Be interesting to see how he sounds as Siegfried.
I thought SF would have EvdH - happy with Adams, though!
The first time I heard de Barbeyrac was in the Don Giovanni that Marc Minkowski conducted at SFO and I didn't like him much. Turns out...he's a very good singer but Ottavio is not his role. I liked him a lot in Der Freischütz.
That production does not sound good!
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