Earnest singing and dramatic insight in Das Rheingold

By Alan Yu, 25 January 2015

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Reviewed at Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall, Hong Kong on 24 January 2015

Wagner, Das Rheingold

Jaap van Zweden, Conductor

Anna Samuil, Freia

Aurhelia Varak, Wellgunde

Eri Nakamura, Woglinde

Deborah Humble, Erda

Hermine Haselböck, Flosshilde

Michelle DeYoung, Fricka

Charles Reid, Froh

Kim Begley, Loge

David Cangelosi, Mime

Peter Sidhom, Alberich

Oleksandr Pushniak, Donner

Matthias Goerne, Wotan

Stephen Milling, Fafner

Kwangchul Youn, Fasolt

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Alan Yu

The first concert Alan attended was Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. For 7 years he presented classical music programmes for Radio Television Hong Kong, partly to pay his way through university. He attends concerts whenever he can and believes there is no substitute for the thrill of live performances. He writes here.

Earnest singing and dramatic insight in Das Rheingold with the Hong Kong Philharmonic