Creative Team
Conducted by Peter Selwyn with the Orpheus Sinfonia
Adaptation by Jonathan Dove & Graham Vick
Orchestrated by Jonathan Dove
Directed by by Julia Burbach
Set, Props and Costume Design by Bettina John
Lighting by Robert Price
This production was a years long endeaver by the creative team and producers to bring the full Ring Cycle adapted by Jonathan Dove & Graham Vick onto the London fringe stages. The first opera – Das Rheingold of the four parts of Wagner’s Ring Cycle were shown at the Arcola Theatre in 2019. The second opera – Die Walküre- was moved to the Hackney Empire in 2021. The third and fourth part Siegfried and Götterdämmerung were performed at the Hackney Empire as a double-bill (as Vick and Dove originally intended with Birmingham Opera); starting in the afternoon with Siegfried in a single span of two hours and continuing with Götterdämmerung in the evening with one interval.
Cast
Paul Carey Jones as Wotan and the Wanderer
Lee Bisset as Brünnhilde
Colin Judson as Mime
Freddie Tong as Alberich
Neil Cooper as Siegfried
Mark Le Brocq as Siegfried
Lucy Anderson as Gutrune
Mae Heydorn as Erda, Flosshilde
Elizabeth Karani as Woodbird
Bethan Mary Langford as Wellgunde
Angharad Lyddon as Waltraute
Simon Thorpe as Gunther
Simon Wilding as Fafner and Hagen
Costume supervisor: Felicitas Bruder, Costume assistant: Linda Savini, Costume breakdown: Nina Schmidl, Design assistant: Ingrid Shiel, stage manager on book: Elizabeth Barry, Assistant stage managers: Aida Bourdis and Giulia Mazzoccanti, production manager: Josephine Tremmeling