Wagner at 200
Richard Wagner is at the heart of the 2013 Proms. Marking the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth, Daniel Barenboim conducts his first Wagner opera in the UK with his Staatskapelle Berlin in the first ever complete performance of the Ring cycle in a single Proms festival. Some of the world’s leading Wagner interpreters take to the Royal Albert Hall stage, including Nina Stemme and Ian Storey.
Das Rheingold (22 July)
Wotan - Iain Paterson
Loge - Stephan Rügamer
Donner - Jan Buchwald
Froh - Marius Vlad
Fricka - Ekaterina Gubanova
Freia - Anna Samuil
Erda - Anna Larsson
Alberich - Johannes Martin Kränzle
Mime - Peter Bronder
Fafner - Eric Halfvarson
Woglinde - Aga Mikolaj
Wellgunde - Maria Gortsevskaya
Flosshilde - Anna Lapkovskaja
Die Walküre (23 July)
Wotan - Bryn Terfel
Siegmund - Simon O’Neill
Sieglinde - Anja Kampe
Hunding - Eric Halfvarson
Brünnhilde - Nina Stemme
Fricka - Ekaterina Gubanova
Gerhilde - Danielle Halbwachs
Ortlinde - Carola Höhn
Waltraute - Ivonne Fuchs
Schwertleite - Anaïk Morel
Helmwige - Susan Foster
Siegrune - Leann Sandel-Pantaleo
Grimgerde - Anna Lapkovskaja
Rossweisse - Simone Schröder
Siegfried (26 July)
Siegfried - Lance Ryan
Brünnhilde - Nina Stemme
Wanderer - Terje Stensvold
Mime - Peter Bronder
Alberich - Johannes Martin Kränzle
Fafner - Eric Halfvarson
Erda - Anna Larsson
Woodbird - Rinnat Moriah
Götterdämmerung (28 July)
Brünnhilde - Nina Stemme
Siegfried - Ian Storey
Hagen - Mikhail Petrenko
Gunther - Gerd Grochowski
Gutrune/Third Norn - Anna Samuil
Alberich - Johannes Martin Kränzle
Waltraute/Second Norn - Waltraud Meier
First Norn - Margarita Nekrasova
Woglinde - Aga Mikolaj
Wellgunde - Maria Gortsevskaya
Flosshilde - Anna Lapkovskaja
Chorus of the Royal Opera House
Also marking Wagner’s anniversary are performances of three more of his iconic operas given by British orchestras and three leading interpreters of his work: Semyon Bychkov, Donald Runnicles and Sir Mark Elder.
Tristan and Isolde
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus/Semyon Bychkov (27 July)
Isolde - Violeta Urmana
Brangäne - Sophie Koch
King Mark - Kwangchul Youn
Tristan - Peter Seiffert
Kurwenal - Boaz Daniel
Melot - David Wilson-Johnson
Tannhäuser
Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Donald Runnicles (4 August)
Tannhäuser - Robert Dean Smith
Elisabeth - Heidi Melton
Venus - Daniela Sindram
Landgraf - Ain Anger
Wolfram - Christpoh Pohl
Walther - Thomas Blondelle
Heinrich - Andrew Rees
Reimar - Brian Bannatyne-Scott
Biterolf - Ashley Holland
Parsifal
Choirs to include: Trinity Boys Choir and Hallé Youth Choir, Sir Mark Elder (25 August)
Parsifal - Lars Cleveman
Kundry - Katarina Dalayman
Gurnemanz - Robert Holl
Amfortas - Iain Paterson
Klingsor - Tom Fox
Titurel - Reinhard Hagen
