Opera North - Der Ring des Nibelungen Reviews
28 March 2024
Das Rheingold: Michael Druiett (Wotan), Jo Pohlheim (Alberich), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Loge)
Die Walküre: Kelly Cae Hogan (Brünnhilde), Robert Hayward (Wotan)
Siegfried: Béla Perencz (Wanderer), Jo Pohlheim (Alberich)
Götterdämmerung: Orchestra

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Der Ring des Nibelungen

Opera North


No. of reviews: 49

Götterdämmerung: Just like Germans
12 Jul 16 / The Critics' Circle
Full cycle: Opera North's version of Wagner's The Ring is a triumph
10 Jul 16 / Daily Mail
Götterdämmerung: The two real heroes of the week were conductor Richard Farnes and Kelly Cae Hogan who sang Brünnhilde
8 Jul 16 / Music OMH
Das Rheingold: Wagner's epic Ring Cycle thrills the first-night audience at Sage Gateshead
7 Jul 16 / Chronicle Live
Götterdämmerung: Peter Mumford, who tackles staging, design, concept, lighting and production, emerges triumphant
6 Jul 16 / Opera Today
Siegfried/ Götterdämmerung: Not just praiseworthy but wonderful
5 Jul 16 / The Guardian
Siegfried: A touch of briskness is more than welcome
5 Jul 16 / Opera Britannia
Götterdämmerung: There was a standing ovation for Opera North’s achievement
5 Jul 16 / Classical Source
Götterdämmerung brings Opera North’s Ring to a triumphant conclusion
5 Jul 16 / Seen and Heard
Siegfried: An achievement that put a good number of larger companies to shame
5 Jul 16 / Opera Today
Siegfried: Horsing around
5 Jul 16 / The Critics' Circle
Götterdämmerung: There was a vocal triumph to be witnessed in the shape of Kelly Cae Hogan’s Brünnhilde
5 Jul 16 / Opera Britannia
Siegfried: A few too many elements undermined the overall impression of the performance
4 Jul 16 / Music OMH
Siegfried: Opera North’s Siegfried disappoints
4 Jul 16 / Seen and Heard
Götterdämmerung: Full immersion, total immolation: Götterdämmerung crowns Opera North's magnificent Ring
4 Jul 16 / Bachtrack
Götterdämmerung: An outstanding Ring goes out in a blaze of glory
4 Jul 16 / The Arts Desk
Das Rhengold/Die Walküre: Splendid stuff
3 Jul 16 / Express
Siegfried: Opera North’s ‘Ring’ cycle is compelling listening
3 Jul 16 / Classical Source
Die Walküre: Kelly Cae Hogan and Robert Hayward were superb as Brünnhilde and Wotan
2 Jul 16 / Music OMH
Das Rheingold: The performance needed more dramatic “zing” in the unfolding
2 Jul 16 / Opera Britannia
Die Walküre: Richard Farnes and his orchestra engaged with this score far more purposefully and positively than they did with the opener
2 Jul 16 / Opera Britannia
Die Walküre: Opera North continues to put many starrier, yet in no sense superior, companies to shame
2 Jul 16 / Opera Today
Das Rheingold/Die Walküre: Circles of the mind
2 Jul 16 / The Critics' Circle
Die Walküre: Opera North's orchestra are the true heroes
1 Jul 16 / The Guardian
Die Walküre: An unforgettable evening
1 Jul 16 / Classical Source
Das Rheingold: Opera North’s magnificent Das Rheingold comes to London
1 Jul 16 / Seen and Heard
Die Walküre: Superb playing and singing from Opera North in Die Walküre
1 Jul 16 / Seen and Heard
Das Rheingold: Opera North's back-to-basics Wagner feels like a liberation
30 Jun 16 / The Guardian
Das Rheingold: Richard Farnes conducted extremely well
30 Jun 16 / Music OMH
Das Rheingold: Richard Farnes’s conducting grabbed from the very start
30 Jun 16 / Classical Source
Das Rheingold: The reddest in tooth and claw of all Wagner’s dramas - which is saying something
30 Jun 16 / Opera Today
Die Walküre: Disobedient daughter, outraged wife: Wotan's woes mount in Opera North's Die Walküre
30 Jun 16 / Bachtrack
Das Rheingold: Dipping a toe into the Rhine: Wagner therapy from Opera North
29 Jun 16 / Bachtrack
Das Rheingold: The long-awaited Ring is ready to ignite
29 Jun 16 / Evening Standard
Götterdämmerung: Kelly Cae Hogan has been truly exceptional as Brünnhilde
21 Jun 16 / The Reviews Hub
Die Walküre: A show that leaves you eager for the next bite
16 Jun 16 / The Reviews Hub
Das Rheingold: One or two words which sum up the production: Fantastic fantasy
15 Jun 16 / The Reviews Hub
Die Walküre: The principal singers gave their all
9 Jun 16 / Nottingham Post
Das Rheingold: The orchestra is in many ways the Ring's most important 'character'
9 Jun 16 / Nottingham Post
Full cycle: An unqualified triumph for the departing Music Directior, Richard Farnes
2 Jun 16 / Independent
Full cycle: Opera North's ambitious project to tour a complete Ring cycle is triumphantly fulfilled
1 Jun 16 / What's on Stage
Full cycle: Opera North’s Ring launched as full cycle to glorious effect
26 May 16 / Seen and Heard
Siegfried: Siegfried by Opera North shows its humorous side
17 May 16 / The Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Die Walküre: Sublime Wagner aches with regret
10 May 16 / Ilkley Gazette
Die Walküre: Vivid and thrilling
2 May 16 / Telegraph
Das Rheingold: The emotional impact of this Leeds Ring Cycle will be talked about for decades
30 Apr 16 / Ilkley Gazette
Das Rheingold: Four-star performance by Opera North
26 Apr 16 / The Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Das Rheingold: A mouth-watering start
26 Apr 16 / The York Press
Das Rheingold: Opera North's Das Rheingold is uncomfortably authentic Wagner
25 Apr 16 / Telegraph
Ring the changes: my austerity Wagner with Opera North
The Ring cycle may be the pinnacle of operatic ambition, but, as Opera North’s critically acclaimed production shows, it needn’t cost the earth to perform or watch. Conductor Richard Farnes reflects on an affor
Opera North's Richard Farnes departs with The Ring
There can be few more challenging tasks as a conductor than taking on the whole of Wagner's The Ring Cycle - but that is the one that has been handed to Richard Farnes for his final assignment at Opera North.
Why Opera North decided to stage an opera which lasts 16 hours
After seven years in the planning stage, Opera North next week embark on the ambitious project of six complete cycles of Richard Wagner’s epic drama, Der Ring des Nibelungen.
Production details
Cast
Druiett/Hayward/Perencz, Hogan/Broderick, Cleveman/Turi, Weinius/Le Brocq, Bisset, Pohlheim, Roberts, Williams/Huckle, Howard/Bickley, Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Almgren, Foster-Williams, Allen, Almgren, Creswell, Creswell, Allen
(c) Farnes (d) Mumford
Performance dates
23, 30 April, 14, 21(m), 24, 25, 27, 29(m) May, 6, 7, 9, 11(m), 13, 14, 16, 18(m), 28, 29 June, 1, 3(m), 5, 6, 8, 10(m) July 2016 (6 cycles in Leeds, Nottingham, Salford, London & Gateshead)
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