Lyric Opera has been a tease this season. It’s now offering a preview of the delights that will be available March 28, when the company revisits one of opera’s most daunting challenges, Wagner’s cycle of four interrelated works, “The Ring of the Nibelung,” in three cycles through mid-April.
Jane Eaglen
Gods' twilight burns brightly at Lyric
By John von Rhein [Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar 05]
The world ended at around 10:45 p.m. WST (Wagner Standard Time) Saturday night at the Civic Opera House, where gods and mortals perished in a stylized apocalypse of fire and flood.
The self-sacrificing Brünnhilde (Jane Eaglen) delivered her moving eulogy to the hero Siegfried (John Treleaven) atop his funeral bier. The Rhinemaidens reclaimed their stolen gold. A sumptuous flood of sound welled up from the orchestra pit, signaling the impending rebirth of a world redeemed by love.
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All participants are winners in 'Ring' marathon
BY WYNNE DELACOMA [Chicago Sun Times, 21 Mar 05]
Lyric Opera has been a tease this season. It's now offering a preview of the delights that will be available March 28, when the company revisits one of opera's most daunting challenges, Wagner's cycle of four interrelated works, "The Ring of the Nibelung," in three cycles through mid-April.
In the fall, Lyric presented "Das Rheingold,'' the first "Ring'' opera, as part of its 2004-05 subscription season. On Saturday, the company gave the first of two nonsubscription performances of "Gotterdammerung,'' the cycle's final opera. Judging from Saturday's performance, starring Jane Eaglen as Brunnhilde and British tenor John Treleavan as Siegfried, Lyric's upcoming "Ring'' cycles will close with resounding success.