Grimley’s character, Wotan, is blinded by the quest for power. These are the adversaries whose power battle has resulted in each pursuing (ultimately unsuccessful) strategies that last decades. The 2018 “Ring” cycles feature Lousiana baritone Greer Grimsley singing the role of Wotan and German bass-baritone Falk Struckmann that of Alberich. Greer Grimsley’s Wotan and Falk Struckmann’s Alberich For my previous in-depth analyses of the production, see the hyperlinks to the previous reviews at this review’s end. This is my fourth Zambello “Rheingold” review in the past decade.
I am reporting on the second of this year’s cycles. Last seen in San Francisco in 2011, the “Ring” returns in three cycles, each over six days. June 2018 marks the San Francisco Opera revival of Francesca Zambello’s ambitious retelling of Wagner’s four opera “Ring of the Nibelungs”.
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