The Festival - Ring...The Ring in seven days. Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and...

The Ring in seven days. Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung in succession. Four operas - one Prologue and three “days” - , four per-formances, fifteen hours of music in the long but con-centrated span of the same week. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. A project in the spirit of Wagner, who fulfilled his dream of an integral performance of his Tetralogy in the new Festspielhaus in Bayreuth between 13 and 17 of August 1876.

In the year that brings Verdi and Wagner together in the bicentenary of their births (1813), the Teatro alla Scala is to include in its 2012-2013 season a double Tetralogy: for all true Wagnerians and opera lovers everywhere, a full immersion into the most visiona-ry journey ever to come out of the musical theatre from Monteverdi to the present. Four different stage settings linked in a single project created by director Guy Cassiers, under the guidance of one of the greatest interpreters of Wagner, Daniel Barenboim, and with four casts of excellent Wagnerians, well-known to opera-goers around the world.

The Scala’s connection with Wagner has solid roots, stretching back in time. On 26 of December 1898, the thirty-one-year-old Arturo Toscanini made his début in the Theatre with Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. After that and until his move to the United States, each year alongside Aida, La Traviata, Rigoletto, Falstaff, Otello and Un Ballo in Maschera, Toscani-ni conducted Wagnerian titles in almost perfect pro-portions: Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde, Siegfried, Die Walküre, Götterdämmerung and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

Victor de Sabata from Trieste, the former Habsburg seaport, maintained the Wagnerian tradition until his death in 1967. However, according to the annals, Wagner has been conducted at the Scala by a long line of great masters of the Germanic cultural sphe-re: Siegfried Wagner, Franz von Hösslin, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Clemens Krauss, Herbert von Karajan.

During the twentieth century, the Scala has staged integral performances of the Tetralogy eight times in the same season: 1927 and 1928 (conducted by Ettore Panizza, an Argentinian of Italian origin), 1930 (Siegfried Wagner), 1931 (Panizza), 1938 (Cle-mens Krauss), 1943 (Franz von Hösslin), 1949-50 (Wilhelm Furtwängler), 1962-63 (André Cluytens).

The last time the Ring was performed in the same week (six days to be precise) was in 1938, when Clemens Krauss conducted the Munich State Opera Chorus and Orchestra.

Today, Daniel Barenboim is to take up this legacy and offer the public his interpretation of Wagner.

Stéphane Lissner

Richard Wagner

Das Rheingold17, 24 June 2013

Conducted byDaniel BARENBOIM

Designed and directed byGuy CASSIERS

Scenery and lighting byEnrico BAGNOLI

Costumes byTim VAN STEENBERGEN

Video byArjen KLERKX and Kurt D’HAESELEER

Choreography bySidi Larbi CHERKAOUI

DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN - Preliminary evening

A production of Teatro alla Scala.

Coproduced with Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin.

In cooperation with Toneelhuis, Antwerp.

DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN - Preliminary evening

Cast

Wotan - Michael VOLLE

Donner - Ian BUCHWALD

Froh - Marius VLAD

Loge - Stephan RÜGAMER

Alberich - Johannes Martin KRÄNZLE

Mime - Peter BRONDER

Fasolt - Iain PATERSON

Fafner - Alexander TSYMBALYUK

Fricka - Ekaterina GUBANOVA

Freia - Anna SAMUIL

Erda - Anna LARSSON

Woglinde - Aga MIKOLAJ

Wellgunde - Maria GORTSEVSKAYA

Flosshilde - Anna LAPKOVSKAJA

Teatro alla Scala reserves the right to make any changes to the Ring programme, due to technical or artistic reasons or to events beyond its

control. Should a performance be cancelled, for any reason, only the value of the cancelled performance will be refunded.

Richard Wagner

Die Walküre18, 25 June 2013






Choreography byCsilla LAKATOS

DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN - First day




DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN - First day

Cast

Siegmund - Simon O’NEILL

Hunding - Mikhail PETRENKO

Wotan - René PAPE

Sieglinde - Waltraud MEIER

Brünnhilde - Irene THEORIN

Fricka - Ekaterina GUBANOVA

Gerhilde - Danielle HALBWACHS

Ortlinde - Carola HÖHN

Waltraute - Ivonne FUCHS

Schwertleite - Anaik MOREL

Helmwige - Susan FOSTER

Siegrune - Lean SANDEL-PANTALEO

Grimgerde - Nicole PICCOLOMINI

Rossweisse - Simone SCHRÖDER



Richard Wagner

Siegfried20, 27 June 2013







DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN - Second day




DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN - Second day

Cast

Siegfried - Lance RYAN

Mime - Peter BRONDER

Der Wanderer - Juha UUSITALO


Fafner - Alexander TSYMBALYUK

Erda - Anna LARSSON


Stimme des Waldvogels - Mari ERIKSMOEN



Richard Wagner

Götterdämmerung22, 29 June 2013







DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN - Third day




DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN - Third day

Cast

Siegfried - Ian STOREY

Gunther - Gerd GROCHOWSKI


Hagen - Mikhail PETRENKO


Gutrune - Marina POPLAVSKAYA

Waltraute - Waltraud MEIER (22 June) Marina PRUDENSKAYA (29 June)

Die erste Norn - Margarita NEKRASOVA

Die zweite Norn - Waltraud MEIER (22 June) Marina PRUDENSKAYA (29 June)

Die dritte Norn - Marina POPLAVSKAYA

Woglinde - Aga MIKOLAJ

Wellgunde - Maria GORTSEVSKAYA

Flosshilde - Anna LAPKOVSKAJA



Subscription

Platinum• Stalls: rows A-N (centre seats)• Boxes: 1st and 2nd tiers (nos. 13-18)

• A welcome cocktail in the theatre foyer on the opening night of the Cycle chosen.• A pre-paid voucher for a packet lunch during the interval of Die Walküre.• Access to the exclusive lounge in the Theatre Museum during all intervals.• Guided tours for groups of the backstage, the Museum and the production workshops in the week of the Cycle chosen.• Invitations to the cultural events organised by La Scala during the week of the Cycle chosen.

Plus some special gifts: • A selection of short videos and pictures of Der Ring on a USB flash drive.• Further information on Der Ring directly to your email address.• The reproduction of a letter signed by Richard Wagner.• A limited edition playbill of the Cycle.• The programme of the Cycle.

One special gift per Cycle subscription purchased, regardless of the number of seats. Special gifts can be collected in the theatre during the Cycle week.

DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN - Subscriptions


Subscription

Gold• Stalls: rows A-N (side seats)• Stalls: rows O-X• Boxes: 1st and 2nd tiers (nos. 1-12)• Boxes: 3rd tier (nos. 13-18)

• A welcome cocktail in the theatre foyer on the opening night of the Cycle chosen.• Guided tours for groups of the monumental part of the Theatre and the Museum in the week of the Cycle chosen.• Invitations to the cultural events organised by La Scala during the week of the Cycle chosen.

Plus some special gifts: • A selection of short videos and pictures of Der Ring on a USB flash drive.• Further information on Der Ring directly to your email address.• A limited edition playbill of the Cycle.

One special gift per Cycle subscription purchased, regardless of the number of seats. Special gifts can be collected in the theatre during the Cycle week.

Subscription

Silver• Boxes: 3rd tier (nos. 1-12)• Boxes: 4th tier (nos. 1-19)

• Guided tours for groups of the Theatre Museum in the week of the Cycle chosen.• One limited edition playbill per subscription purchased, regardless of the number of seats. The playbill can be collected in the theatre during the Cycle.• Further information on Der Ring directly to your email address.• Invitations to the cultural events organised by La Scala during the week of the Cycle chosen.



Subscription

Bronze• 1st Balcony (nos. 19-90)• 2nd Balcony (nos. 33-80)

• Invitations to the cultural events organised by La Scala during the week of the Cycle chosen.• Further information on Der Ring directly to your email address.

Monday 17 June 20138.00 pm

Tuesday 18 June 2013 6.30 pm

Thursday 20 June 2013 6.30 pm

Saturday 22 June 20136.00 pm

1st week 2nd week

Monday 24 June 20138.00 pm

Tuesday 25 June 2013 6.30 pm

Thursday 27 June 2013 6.30 pm

Saturday 29 June 20136.00 pm

Das Rheingold

Die Walküre

Siegfried

Götterdämmerung

DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN - Calendar

Calendar

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Gold

DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN - Stalls

Platinum

Gold

Silver

DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN - Boxes

* Seats in the boxes cannot be sold separately.

DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN - Box details

Platinum

Gold

Silver* Seats in the boxes cannot be sold separately.

Bronze

DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN - Balcony

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