Simone Young conducts Das Rheingold
AN OPERA IN CONCERT
Wagner’s extraordinary vision would take pages to describe – it should only be experienced, and ideally, as a purely musical performance.
A groundbreaking music drama that took Wagner twenty-six years to complete, the Ring Cycle is an epic through and through. Das Rheingold, the first in the four-opera cycle, sets the tone for the story – a cosmic struggle between Norse gods, heroes and mythical creatures over a cursed ring that bestows world domination.
These performances mark the start of a landmark multi-year project presenting the complete Ring Cycle in concert, led by Chief Conductor Simone Young, internationally acclaimed for her mastery of Wagner’s music. This is a rare chance to hear Wagner’s masterpiece in Sydney, and will be its first performances here in more than twenty years.
In a pure musical experience, our Orchestra and the finest Wagnerian singers from Australia and Europe appear together on stage – free to unleash Wagner’s dramatic and deeply felt sound in all its awesome power. All in the rich acoustic of the Concert Hall.
In a word, unforgettable.
Program
WAGNER Das Rheingold
Artists
SIMONE YOUNG conductor
SAMANTHA CLARKE
Woglinde
JACQUELINE DARK
Wellgunde
MARGARET PLUMMER
Flosshilde
WOLFGANG KOCH
Wotan
MICHAELA SCHUSTER
Fricka
FALK STRUCKMANN
Alberich
JUD ARTHUR
Fafner
SIMON MEADOWS
Fasolt
ELEANOR LYONS
Freia
NOA BEINART
Erda
STEVE DAVISLIM
Loge
SIMON O'NEILL
Froh
SAMUEL DUNDAS
Donner
ANDREW GOODWIN
Mime