Production team as above. Conductor, Pablo Heras-Casado. Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Siegmund; Christopher Maltman, Wotan; Günther Groissböck, Hunding; Elza van den Heever, Sieglinde; Tamara Wilson, Brünnhilde; Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Fricka This performance I genuinely wondered about – would the Saturday protests allow it to go ahead? The Metro stations near me were all closed, so my plannedContinue reading “Wagner, Die Walkuere, Opera Bastille, Paris. 7/11/26”
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Wagner, Das Rheingold, Opera Bastille, Paris. 6/11/26
Calixto Bieito, Director; Rebecca Ringst, Set design; Ingo Krügler, Costume design; Michael Bauer, Lighting design; Video design, Sarah Derendinger. Conductor, Pablo Heras-Casado. Christopher Maltman, Wotan; Florent Mbia, Donner; Matthew Cairns, Froh; Simon O’Neill, Loge; Mika Kares, Fafner; Brian Mulligan, Alberich; Gerhard Siegel, Mime; Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Fricka; Eliza Boom, Freia; Kwangchul Youn, Fasolt; Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Erda;Continue reading “Wagner, Das Rheingold, Opera Bastille, Paris. 6/11/26”
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen. Opera Bastille, Paris: 6 – 13/11/26
(Written a couple of days before my trip to Paris). Although the ROHCG Kosky Ring is coming up in Autumn 2027, and I shall certainly be going to that, I couldn’t resist a week and a bit in Paris a year earlier to see the Bieito Ring, of which I have heard interesting things. TheContinue reading “Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen. Opera Bastille, Paris: 6 – 13/11/26”
