![]() ![]() Running June 17, 24 & July 1, Mulligan joins Iréne Theorin as Brünnhilde, Daniel Brenna as Siegfried, Andrea Silvestrelli as Hagen, Jamie Barton as Waltraute, Melissa Citro as Gutrune, Stacey Tappan as Woglinde, Lauren McNeese as Wellgunde, and Renée Tatum as Flosshilde onstage.įor more information and tickets to Wagner’s monumental Ring Cycle visit the San Francisco Opera website. Donald Runnicles served as music director and principal conductor of San Francisco Opera from 1992 to 2009. He then sings the role of Gunther in the final installment of the Ring, Wagner’s Götterdämmerung. With performances on June 12, 19, 26, Mulligan shares the stage with an esteemed group of colleagues, including Greer Grimsley as Wotan, Štefan Margita as Loge, Falk Struckmann as Alberich, Jamie Barton as Fricka, Ronnita Miller as Erda, David Cangelosi as Mime, Andrea Silvestrelli as Fasolt, Raymond Aceto as Fafner, and Brandon Jovanovich as Froh. Mulligan begins singing Donner in Das Rheingold, the first of four operas that constitute Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Maestro Runnicles, who served as music director and principal conductor of the San Francisco Opera from 1992 to 2009, is regarded as a leading Wagnerian conductor and he led the company in two Ring cycles in 1990. Additional casting for the San Francisco Opera’s Ring cycles remains as previously announced, with Greer Grimsley as Wotan, Daniel Brenna in his company debut as Siegfried, Karita Mattila as. ![]() Francesca Zambello directs these groundbreaking productions with Donald Runnicles leading from the pit for all dates. By Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 20 June 2018 As the program notes for San Francisco Opera ’s Ring assert, the cycle hinges on love. It’s a welcome return with an excellent cast that I got the chance to catch this week during the second cycle which started last night with Das Rheingold. This is my fourth Zambello Rheingold review in the past decade. I am reporting on the second of this year’s cycles. Last seen in San Francisco in 2011, the Ring returns in three cycles, each over six days. This summer, Brian Mulligan makes two highly anticipated role debuts as Donner and Gunther in Wagner’s triumphant Ring Cycle at the San Francisco Opera. Falk Struckmann as Alberich as Greer Grimsley as Wotan Photo: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera 2018 Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen has returned to San Francisco this June. June 2018 marks the San Francisco Opera revival of Francesca Zambello’s ambitious retelling of Wagner’s four opera Ring of the Nibelungs.
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