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SF Opera Ring Cast

Walkuere

The casting for San Francisco Opera's Der Ring des Nibelungen was announced today. The three cycles are scheduled for June 14-19, June 21-26, and June 28-July 3, 2011, and will be conducted by Donald Runnicles. The production is directed by Francesca Zambello, with sets from Michael Yeargan. Currently, tickets for complete cycles are on sale for subscribers and donors only.

Das Rheingold
Wotan: Mark Delavan
Loge: Stefan Margita
Alberich: Gordon Hawkins
Fricka: Larissa Diadkova
Erda: Ronnita Miller
Mime: David Cangelosi
Fasolt: Andrea Silvestrelli
Fafner: Daniel Sumegi
Freia: Melissa Citro

Die Walküre
Wotan: Mark Delavan
Brünnhilde: Nina Stemme
Siegmund: Brandon Jovanovich
Sieglinde: Anja Kampe, Heidi Melton (6/29)
Fricka: Larissa Diadkova
Hunding: Daniel Sumegi

Siegfried
Siegfried: Ian Storey
Mime: David Cangelosi
Brünnhilde: Nina Stemme
Alberich: Gordon Hawkins
Wotan: Mark Delavan
Erda: Ronnita Miller
Fafner: Daniel Sumegi
Forest Bird: Stacey Tappan

Götterdämmerung
Siegfried: Ian Storey
Brünnhilde: Nina Stemme
Gunther: Gerd Grochowski
Hagen: Andrea Silvestrelli
Alberich: Gordon Hawkins
Waltraute: Daveda Karanas
First Norn: Ronnita Miller
Second Norn: Daveda Karanas
Third Norn: Heidi Melton
Woglinde: Stacey Tappan

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8 responses to “SF Opera Ring Cast”

  1. Not For Fun Only Avatar
    Not For Fun Only

    I assume that Mark Delavan is also the Wanderer in Siegfried? Pretty amazing to see Heidi’s Sieglinde assignment. I would also like to hear Silvestrelli’s Hagen. I liked Richard Paul Fink’s Alberich in Rheingold last year, so I’m surprised that he is not coming back.

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  2. The Opera Tattler Avatar
    The Opera Tattler

    Yes, good point, I missed putting Delavan in the right line. I’m looking forward to hearing Heidi as well.
    Richard Paul Fink is great, I wonder if he is just overbooked.

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  3. upstairs tenor Avatar
    upstairs tenor

    Being an usher, I haven’t paid for a ticket at SFO in three years. The Ring Cycle I am definitely going to buy my way into, just so I can sit down.

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  4. The Opera Tattler Avatar
    The Opera Tattler

    I think I might just stand, but we’ll see, it is a long way off.

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  5. mj Avatar
    mj

    Hey Opera Tattler,
    Not about the Ring, but in other upcoming season news….
    I came across a couple of future season tidbits in some online singer bios. These are all Italian Opera warhorses, so I guess David G isn’t kidding about his Italian thing.
    Aida with Tichina Vaughan and Marco Vratogna
    Turandot with Marco Berti
    Butterfly with Svetla Vassileva & Stefano Secco
    a “new” Rigoletto with tenor Francesco Demuro

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  6. The Opera Tattler Avatar
    The Opera Tattler

    I’ve heard about the Aida, but the others aren’t too surprising either. Thanks for your help! I will update the SF Futures page.

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  7. Lisa Hirsch Avatar
    Lisa Hirsch

    Turandot with Berti? God, no. And why a new Rigoletto? And why do Butterfly with anyone other than Patricia Racette?
    OT, there is no Mime in Goetterdaemmerung. 😉

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  8. The Opera Tattler Avatar
    The Opera Tattler

    Golly, you are right. Thanks!

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