Caroline Wenborne
2021arts at the Conservatory in Sydney. She won numerous singing competitions and
was a member of the opera studio Cologne in 2005/2006. Her repertoire comprises
parts such as Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro), Fiordiligi (Così fan
tutte), Antonia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni),
Desdemona (Otello), Alice Ford (Falstaff) and Rusalka. In
2006/2007 she was scholarship holder of the Opera Foundation Australia at the
Wiener Staatsoper, where she debuted as Giannetta (L’elisir d’amore) in
2007. That same year she was awarded the Eberhard Wachter Medal. Since the
season 2007/2008 Caroline Wenborne is a member of the ensemble of the Wiener
Staatsoper. She sang (exerpt) Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Donna Anna (Don
Giovanni), Javotte (Manon), Mascha and Chloë (Pique Dame),
Gerhilde (Walküre), Freia (Das Rheingold), Gutrune and Dritte
Norn (Götterdämmerung), Freia (Das Rheingold), Isotta (Die
schweigsame Frau) here. Further engagements for example led the singer to
the Victoria Opera Australia, where she sang Donna Anna. http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/kuenstler/saengerinnen/Wenborne.en.php
Der Ring des Nibelungen: Die Walküre
Frank Castorf
Christopher Ventris, Georg Zeppenfeld
Frank Castorf’s staging of the Ring, premiered in 2013 and filmed in 2016, provoked controversy right from the beginning. For Castorf, the Rheingold of our days is oil; thus he places the first part of the tetralogy at a gas station on Route 66. Die Walküre is situated in Baku, Azerbaijan, which was seized by the Bolsheviks in 1920 for its oil, whereas Siegfried takes place in a socialist equivalent of Mount Rushmore and at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. Götterdämmerung is set somewhere in the GDR, ending up at New York’s stock exchange. Whilst Castorf’s staging polarized, Marek Janowski’s musical reading was unanimously praised, as was the excellent cast including in this opera Iain Paterson (Wotan), Nadine Weissmann (Erda), Albert Dohmen (Alberich) and Roberto Saccà (Loge)
The Ring of the Nibelung: The Valkyrie
Der Ring des Nibelungen: Das Rheingold
Frank Castorf
Iain Paterson, Markus Eiche
Frank Castorf’s staging of the Ring, premiered in 2013 and filmed in 2016, provoked controversy right from the beginning. For Castorf, the Rheingold of our days is oil; thus he places the first part of the tetralogy at a gas station on Route 66. Die Walküre is situated in Baku, Azerbaijan, which was seized by the Bolsheviks in 1920 for its oil, whereas Siegfried takes place in a socialist equivalent of Mount Rushmore and at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. Götterdämmerung is set somewhere in the GDR, ending up at New York’s stock exchange. Whilst Castorf’s staging polarized, Marek Janowski’s musical reading was unanimously praised, as was the excellent cast including in this opera Iain Paterson (Wotan), Nadine Weissmann (Erda), Albert Dohmen (Alberich) and Roberto Saccà (Loge).
The Ring of the Nibelung: The Rhinegold
