San Francisco Opera Announces 2028 Ring Casting

Die Walküre, Act 1

2018 San Francisco Opera Ring

Brandon Jovanovich (Siegmund) and Karita Mattila (Sieglinde)

Photo: Cory Weaver / San Francisco Opera

San Francisco Opera will revive Francesca Zambello's production of Der Ring des Nibelungen (Richard Wagner) in 2028, and they've announced full casting this week, almost a year after the initial announcement. Pricing is also available; subscribers and anyone who has donated at least $150 can apply for Ring tickets starting on October 13.

If you're not sure whether Wagner is for you, you can always get a June, 2027, subscription ticket to Das Rheingold, the prologue and shortest of the Ring operas. There are also numerous excellent Ring productions available on DVD or streaming. 

Seeing the Ring, in several productions and with several conductors, has been among the greatest theatrical / operatic experiences of my life. I am very much looking forward to hearing SFO music director Eun Sun Kim conduct the Ring; her Wagner to date has been superb. If you can swing it, I encourage you to go.

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

 

Production:
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
Cast:
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
Cast:
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
Cast:
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
Cast:
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