Experience the Ring Cycle from a brand new, intimate perspective! Watch a portrait of a true artist at work, as Richard Farnes (Music Director, Opera North 2004-2016) conducts the entirety of Wagner's epic 15 hour music drama, Der Ring des Nibelungen, recorded during live performances in Leeds (2016).
Opera North: The Ring Cycle
Recorded live at Leeds Town Hall, May 2016. All rights reserved.
Music and libretto: Richard Wagner (1876)
Conductor: Richard Farnes
Director: Peter Mumford
Orchestra and Chorus of Opera North
DAS RHEINGOLD
Wotan - Michael Druiett,
Loge - Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke
Alberich - Jo Pohlheim
Fricka - Yvonne Howard
Mime - Richard Roberts
Freia - Giselle Allen
Donner - Andrew Foster-Williams
Froh - Mark Le Brocq
Fasolt - James Creswell
Fafner - Mats Almgren
Erda - Claudia Huckle
Woglinde - Jeni Bern
Wellgunde - Madeleine Shaw
Flosshilde - Sarah Castle
Nibelung scream recorded by the Opera North Children's Chorus
DIE WALKÃœRE:
Brünnhilde - Kelly Cae Hogan
Sieglinde - Lee Bisset
Siegmund - Michael Weinius
Wotan - Robert Hayward
Fricka - Susan Bickley
Hunding - James Creswell
Helmwige - Katherine Broderick
Ortlinde - Kate Valentine
Gerhilde - Giselle Allen
Siegrune - Sarah Castle
Rossweisse - Madeleine Shaw
Waltraute - Heather Shipp
Grimgerde - Fiona Kimm
Schwertleite - Claudia Huckle
SIEGFRIED
Siegfried - Lars Cleveman
Brünnhilde - Katherine Broderick
Mime - Richard Roberts
Wanderer - Béla Perencz
Alberich - Jo Pohlheim
Fafner - Mats Almgren
Woodbird - Jeni Bern
Erda - Claudia Huckle
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
Brünnhilde - Kelly Cae Hogan
Siegfried - Mati Turi
Hagen - Mats Almgren
Gutrune - Giselle Allen
Gunther - Andrew Foster-Williams
Waltraute - Susan Bickley
Alberich - Jo Pohlheim
First Norn - Fiona Kimm
Second Norn - Heather Shipp
Third Norn - Lee Bisset
Woglinde - Jeni Bern
Wellgunde - Madeleine Shaw
Flosshilde - Sarah Castle
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