Simone Young’s considerable Wagnerian credentials will be on display as she conducts two concert performances of Das Rheingold, the first instalment of the composer’s mighty Ring Cycle. A first-rate mix of international and Australian singers is headed by the veteran Wotan of Wolfgang Koch, the hugely experienced Falk Struckmann as Alberich and Aussie tenor Steve Davislim as Loge. With star voices like Simon O’Neill and Samuel Dundas as Froh and Donner, and the SSO – the very definition of luxury casting – it promises to be a memorable evening.

Limelight Editor’s Choice

Wagner’s extraordinary vision would take pages to describe – it should only be experienced, and ideally, as a purely musical performance. A groundbreaking music drama that took Wagner twenty-six years to complete, the Ring Cycle is an epic through and through. Das Rheingold, the first in the four-opera cycle, sets the tone for the story – a cosmic struggle between Norse gods, heroes and mythical creatures over a cursed ring that bestows world domination.

These performances mark the start of a landmark multi-year project presenting the complete Ring Cycle in concert, led by Chief Conductor Simone Young, internationally acclaimed for her mastery of Wagner’s music. This is a rare chance to hear Wagner’s masterpiece in Sydney, and will be its first performances here in more than twenty years.

In a pure musical experience, our Orchestra and the finest Wagnerian singers from Australia and Europe appear together on stage – free to unleash Wagner’s dramatic and deeply felt sound in all its awesome power. All in the rich acoustic of the Concert Hall.

In a word, unforgettable.