WOS Radio: Edward Seckerson Talks to Opera North Part 2
Opera North is about to embark upon a four-year climb to the summit of that everest of music dramas Wagner’s Ring. As they prepare the Prologue of the cycle – Das Rheingold – Edward Seckerson talks to the company’s music director Richard Farnes and Michael Drueitt, who plays Wotan in the first opera, about the journey ahead: the decision to mount the company’s first Ring cycle as a series of elaborately mounted and atmospherically lit concert performances where virtue can be made of necessity by bringing the Opera North Orchestra – as important a character as any in Wagner’s music drama – out of the pit and on to the platforms of some of the North’s best concert halls.
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