Das Rheingold | The Ring Cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=4EYW49Ru_F4&feature=emb_title
Opera North’s acclaimed concert staging of Wagner’s Ring cycle, filmed in Leeds, UK, June 2016. The Ring begins with music that evokes the very dawn of time. From this moment we are plunged into the watery twilight beneath the river Rhine, transported to misty mountain-tops and to the depths of gloomy Nibelheim, before crossing the rainbow bridge that leads to Valhalla, fortress home of the gods. Set in a world populated by dwarfs and giants, gods and river-maidens, Wagner’s ‘preliminary evening’ to the Ring sets the whole epic cycle in motion in thrilling fashion. CONDUCTOR: Richard Farnes STAGE DIRECTOR AND LIGHTING & PROJECTION DESIGNER: Peter Mumford FILM DIRECTOR: Peter Mumford WOTAN: Michael Druiett LOGE: Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke ALBERICH: Jo Pohlheim FRICKE: 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 Find out more
Act I: Die Walküre | The Ring Cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VxmmncvfOE
Opera North’s acclaimed concert staging of Wagner’s Ring cycle, filmed in Leeds, UK, June 2016. In Die Walküre, it is human emotion that takes centre stage. The musical highlights are many: ‘Winterstürme’, Siegmund’s hymn of praise to the coming of spring and the awakening of love; the Ride of the Valkyries; the Magic Fire music. Above all, there is the great confrontation between the god Wotan and his favourite daughter, Brünnhilde – the Valkyrie of the title – who love each other deeply, yet whose relationship has been irreparably broken by her disobedience. CONDUCTOR: Richard Farnes STAGE DIRECTOR AND LIGHTING & PROJECTION DESIGNER: Peter Mumford FILM DIRECTOR: Peter Mumford 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
Act II: Die Walküre | The Ring Cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GTsFej2gVA
Act III: Die Walküre | The Ring Cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap_p_oQtqec
Act I: Siegfried | The Ring Cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HlB7qZrRY0
Opera North’s acclaimed concert staging of Wagner’s Ring cycle, filmed in Leeds, UK, June 2016. Wagner’s unparalleled orchestral scene-painting reaches new heights in Siegfried. The youthful hero, fearless and free, forges an unbreakable sword from the shards of the weapon that belonged to his father, slays the dragon Fafner, seizes the ring from the dragon’s hoard, and braves a ring of magic fire that encircles the sleeping maiden, Brünnhilde, whom he awakens to love. CONDUCTOR: Richard Farnes STAGE DIRECTOR AND LIGHTING & PROJECTION DESIGNER: Peter Mumford FILM DIRECTOR: Peter Mumford SIEGFRIED: Lars Cleveman BRÜNNHILDE: Katherine Broderick MIME: Richard Roberts WANDERER: Béla Perencz ALBERICH: Jo Pohlheim FAFNER: Mats Almgren WOODBIRD: Jeni Bern ERDA: Claudia Huckle
Act II: Siegfried | The Ring Cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr-I8k1Dpjk
Act III: Siegfried | The Ring Cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMesxM1BuyY
Prologue & Act I: Götterdämmerung | The Ring Cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cDrluDIP10
Opera North’s acclaimed concert staging of Wagner’s Ring cycle, filmed in Leeds, UK, June 2016. In the overwhelming conclusion of the cycle, the all-consuming love of Siegfried and Brünnhilde is broken in bitter betrayal; the machinations of Hagen, son of Alberich, seal Siegfried’s doom; and Brünnhilde’s self-sacrifice precipitates the end of the old world order and the beginning of a new era. The musical and dramatic power of Götterdämmerung is awe-inspiring – sweeping us from Siegfried’s Rhine Journey to his Funeral March, and, finally, to Brünnhilde’s immolation and the work’s titanic orchestral climax. CONDUCTOR: Richard Farnes STAGE DIRECTOR AND LIGHTING & PROJECTION DESIGNER: Peter Mumford FILM DIRECTOR: Peter Mumford 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 Chorus of Opera North
Act II: Götterdämmerung | The Ring Cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFhVUE_fQjY
Act III: Götterdämmerung | The Ring Cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwEGgLICW24
Parsifal
https://www.operanorth.co.uk/whats-on/parsifal/
Uncover the tale of the knights who guard the Holy Grail Amfortas, lord of the Grail knights, suffers physically from a wound inflicted upon him by the sorcerer Klingsor, and spiritually from the burden of sin: he allowed himself to be seduced in Klingsor’s magical realm by a beautiful woman. With no cure to be found, the community of the Grail is threatened with disintegration. The only hope lies in a prophecy: that one day all may be redeemed by an innocent fool made wise by compassion.
Wagner said that Parsifal was his ‘farewell to the world’, and so it proved. It was his final opera, and the overwhelming power and beauty of his music reaches new heights of intensity in this work. This concert staging will be conducted by former Music Director Richard Farnes, whose performances of the Opera North Ring cycle in 2016 met with universal acclaim.