The Quest for Reginald Goodall - Die Walküre - Anne Evans & Philip Joll

Humphrey Burton's1984  BBC Omnibus programme, The Quest for Reginald Goodall with a rather young Anne Evans &  Philip Joll (Longborough Festival Opera's Wotan in this years Siegfried)

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Listen Now: Anne Evans & Richard Farnes discuss Opera North production of Wagner's Das Rheingold - BBC Radio 3 Ondemand

Dame Anne Evans and conductor Richard Farnes talk to Sean Rafferty about the new Opera North production of Wagner's Das Rheingold, which tours concert halls across the north of England from this weekend.

Click here to listen: Intune

And from Opera North's Blog:

With Opera North’s Das Rheingold due to open at Leeds Town Hall on Saturday 18 June, here are some images from the production.

Jennifer Johnstone as Wellgunde, Jeni Bern as Woglinde, Sarah Castle as Flosshilde and Nicholas Folwell as Alberich. Photo credit: Clive Barda

Michael Druiett as Wotan. Photo credit: Clive Barda

Michael Druiett as Wotan, Nicholas Folwell as Alberich and Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke as Loge. Photo credit: Clive Barda

Gregory Frank as Fafner, Giselle Allen as Freia and James Creswell as Fasolt. Photo credit: Clive Barda

Conductor Richard Farnes. Photo credit: Clive Barda

Das Rheingold opens at Leeds Town Hall on Saturday 18 June. Further performances take place at Leeds Town Hall (1 July, 8 September), Birmingham Symphony Hall (24 June), The Sage,Gateshead (26 June) and The Lowry, Salford Quays (10 September). More details and booking information here.

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Dame Anne Evens: I saw The World End

Unique Event at the Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds as part of Opera Norths Ring Cycle

During the course of a highly distinguished career, Dame Anne Evans established herself as one of the leading Wagnerian sopranos of her generation. Her performance of Brünnhilde in the Barenboim/Kupfer Ring at Bayreuth in the early 1990s is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time. In the first part of this very special event, Dame Anne will be in conversation about her life in Wagner, and in the second, she will lead an in-depth exploration of scenes from Das Rheingold with soprano Giselle Allen and mezzo Yvonne Howard, both of whom appear in Opera North’s forthcoming concert staging of the first part of Wagner’s tetralogy. This is a unique opportunity to gain insight into Wagner’s vast music drama from one of its most experienced exponents.

Sat 11 June 2011, 7.45pm. Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds

More Information: Opera North - I Saw The World End

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