Deborah Voigt stars in Met’s “Ring” reprise worldwide
The breathtaking tones of Deborah Voigt’s Brünnhilde will be heard again at the Metropolitan Opera, with the company’s April 13-May 12 reprise of the bold new Robert Lepage production of Wagner’s Ring cycle. Moreover, opera lovers across the globe will thrill to what the New York Times has described as “the energy, feeling and character in her every phrase,” as the Met’s Ring is beamed to cinemas worldwide as part of the wildly popular Met Live in HD series, with encore screenings of the operas in the U.S. May 14-19. This will be the first time an entire Ring cycle has been shown on cinema screens. On May 7, as a prelude to the Ring in HD, stateside movie theaters will show Wagner’s Dream, a new documentary by Susan Froemke about the creation of the Met’s new staging.
New York magazine’s Justin Davidson was one of the critics left awe-struck by Voigt’s initial Met performances as Brünnhilde, writing that the soprano “sounds charged, clear and ferocious… She husbands her energies for much of the evening, then unleashes the character’s badass side.” In the New York Times, Anthony Tommasini pointed out how her voice “sliced through the orchestra and throbbed with intensity.” Olivia Giovetti, WQXR’s Operavore, stated that Voigt’s portrayal was “a striking, frankly beautiful transformation,” culminating in “emotional catharsis.” Voigt stars in a dream cast for the Ring that also boasts Bryn Terfel as Wotan and Jay Hunter Morris as Siegfried, along with Jonas Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Westbroek, and Stephanie Blythe. Chiming in with the praise for Voigt’s performances, the New York Daily News reported: “As Brünnhilde, the goddess downsized by love to mere mortal, Deborah Voigt was on fire … and not just when she sacrificed herself in an inferno. Her voice blazed with passion.”
Beyond the Met Ring, Voigt returns to host the Met Live in HD series on April 14, when La traviata is beamed to cinemas internationally. On May 16 at the Central Park Boathouse, the soprano is the star of New York City Opera’s Spring Gala: An Evening with Deborah Voigt. She also has high-profile concert engagements this spring and early summer: Voigt joins the Montreal Symphony Orchestra for a concert of arias by Beethoven, Wagner, and Strauss (May 22-23), and she will appear with the Minnesota Orchestra to sing more signature repertoire – the “Dance of the Seven Veils” and Final Scene from Strauss’s Salome (June 7-10). June and July see the singer embark on a major tour Down Under, and she gives a recital at Glimmerglass in August.
Deborah Voigt: upcoming performances
April 13 & May 7
New York, NY
Metropolitan Opera
Wagner: Die Walküre
April 21 & May 9
New York, NY
Metropolitan Opera
Wagner: Siegfried
May 7
Met Live in HD
Wagner’s Dream
May 12
New York, NY
Metropolitan Opera
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
May 14
Met Live in HD
Wagner: Die Walküre
May 16
Met Live in HD
Wagner: Siegfried
May 16
New York City Opera Spring Gala
An Evening with Deborah Voigt
May 19
Met Live in HD
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
May 22-23
Montreal, Canada
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Arias by Wagner, Beethoven, and Strauss
May 29
Bogotá, Columbia
Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá
Benefit for Notas de Paz
June 7-10
Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota Orchestra
Strauss: “Dance of the Seven Veils” and Final Scene from Salome
June 24
Sydney, Australia
Sydney Opera House, Utzon Room
An American Songbook presented by Utzon Music Series
June 27
Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Selections by Wagner and Strauss
June 29-30
Sydney, Australia
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Selections by Wagner and Strauss
July 2
Port Macquarie, Australia
The Glasshouse
Songs by Stephen Sondheim, Kurt Weill, Cole Porter, and Oscar Hammerstein
July 12
Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra
Selections by Wagner and Strauss
July 30
Sun Valley, ID
Sun Valley Summer Symphony
Selections by Wagner and Strauss
Aug 5
Cooperstown, NY
The Glimmerglass Festival
Recital
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