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Issued Monday, 8 May, 2006
Stig Andersen appointed Royal Chamber Singer
 In
the first intermission in Friday's performance of SIEGFRIED Her Majesty
The Queen appointed Stig Andersen - who sang the title role - Royal Chamber
Singer. It s the first time since the appointment of soprano Inga Nielsen in
1998 that this honour is bestowed upon a singer. This honorary title can in
Denmark be traced back to the 18th century, and has been given to around 50
persons.
Issued Wednesday, 26 April, 2006
Set designer's website
Set designers Marie í Dali and Steffen Aarfing has created a special wesite
devoted to their work on The Copenhagen Ring:
http://www.scenograferne.dk/ringsite.html
Issued Tuesday, 4 April, 2006
This week Placido Domingo is visiting the Opera house at Holmen, where he will
bedoing a guest performance as Siegmund in DIE WALKÜRE on Friday.
Issued Thursday, 23 marts, 2006
The Ring - now in a model theatre version
In May you can see the four parts of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen in
a model theatre version by Per Brinck Abrahamsen and Kasper Wilton. Each opera
takes about 45 minutes and the set design re-creates the original performance in
Bayreuth in 1876.
Read more about the guest performance
here.
Issued Tuesday, 7 March, 2006
The countdown continues - today 50 days remain! For the first time in
about 100 years the four operas of Wagners’ Der Ring des Nibelungens can be seen
complete at The Royal Danish Opera. Wagner’s 14-hour opera tetralogy on the dilemma of power and love has not been performed at the Royal Danish Theatre since
1912.
Issued Tuesday, 28 February, 2006
Latest article:
The difficulty of endings
By Kasper Bech Holten
“How do you bring The Ring to completion? It’s almost impossible to let go of
this gargantuan work. Impossible because there are so many threads, ideas and
tracks to follow that preferably should be synthesised into a meaningful final
statement, which apart from wrapping up the story should also point ahead to the
future. Impossible because after five or six years of work you become so
ambitious with what the finale should signify that the ideas keep tripping over
each other...”
Read more
Issued Friday, 16. February, 2006
Stig Fogh Andersen will celebrate his 25th anniversary in opera at the performance
SIEGFRIED given on 26 February 2006.
Read more about Stig Fogh Andersen on: www.stigandersen.com
Issued Wednesday, 15 February, 2006
Latest article:
THE WAGNER TUBA
By Poul-Erik Vilsbæk, Principal French horn - Royal Danish Orchestra
“While working on the orchestral composition of The Ring, Wagner found that he
lacked an instrument that could produce a range of sound combining elements of
the French horn and the trombone. The ways in which he later employed the Wagner
tuba illustrate that he also wanted an entirely new and special sound to
supplement the brass section.
In the first draft of the orchestration for Das
Rheingold…”
Read more
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