The Ring in Toronto - February 2020

In February 2020, Berlin Wagner Gruppe presented a co-production with Opera By Request of the entire Ring Cycle over one weekend in Toronto, Canada. It was exciting, exhilarating, and a critical success!
Little did we know that it would be the last live performance of anything of this size for the foreseeable future. Although we were supposed to do repeat performances (The spRing Cycle) in Bellville, Canada in May of 2020, those dates have been postponed to 2022 due to Covid-19. 

You can read the review from the Toronto Wagner Society here!

The cast:

Das Rheingold
Woglinde - Kiera Allison
Wellgunde - Jennifer Carter
Flosshilde - Alexandra Beley
Alberich - Peter Bass
Fricka - Jilian Yemen
Wotan - Michael York
Fasolt - Dylan Wright
Fafner - George Ossipov
Freia - Vanessa Lanch*
Froh - Chris Bauer
Donner - John Holland
Loge - Lenard Whiting
Mime - Oliver Dawson
Erda - Francesca Corrado
Music Director - William Shookoff
Stage Director - Julie Wyma*

Die Walküre
Siegmund - Peter Furlong*
Sieglinde - Vanessa Lanch*
Hunding - Gene Wu
Wotan - Andrew Tees
Brünnhilde - Miriam Gordon-Stewart
Fricka - Jillian Yemen
Helmwige - Cristina Pisani
Gerhilde - Abigail Veenstra
Ortlinde - Julie Wyma*
Waltraute - Jennifer Carter
Schwertleite - Erin Armstrong
Rossweise - Alexandra Beley
Grimgerde - Monica Zerbe
Siegrune - Francesca Corrado
Music Director - William Shookoff
Stage Director - Julie Wyma*
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Siegfried:
Mime - Oliver Dawson
Siegfried - Robert Martin
Wotan - Andrew Tees
Alberich - John Holland
Fafner - George Ossipov
Waldvogel - Julie Wyma*
Erda - Francesca Corrado
Brünnhilde - Miriam Gordon-Stewart
Music Director - William Shookoff
Stage Director - Julie Wyma*

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Götterdämmerung:
First Norn - Meghan Symon
Second Norn - Wendy Cladman
Third Norn - Julie Wyma*
Siegfried - Robert Martin
Brünnhilde - Susan Tsagkaris
Gunther - Michael Robert-Broder
Hagen - Dylan Wright
Gutrune - Vanessa Lanch*
Waltraute - Jillian Yemen
Alberich - John Holland
Woglinde - Kiera Allison
Wellgunde - Jennifer Carter
Flosshilde - Alexandra Beley
Music Director - William Shookoff
Stage Director - Julie Wyma*


* Member of Berlin Wagner Gruppe; musical preparation - Byron Knutson

The Ring Cycle - Toronto