MONDAY 1 OCTOBER 2018 CAST AMENDMENT GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG () Monday 1 October 2018 at 4pm

Due to the indisposition of Christina Bock, Rachael Lloyd sings Wellgunde in today’s performance.

Rachael Lloyd has sung Alisa (Lucia di Lammermoor) and Kate Pinkerton () for The Royal . Other appearances include Mrs Anderssen in Sondheim’s A Little Night Music (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris), the title role of Carmen (Raymond Gubbay Ltd at ), Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw, Third Lady in and Pitti-Sing in (ENO), Amastris in Xerxes (ETO, Early Opera Company), Maddalena in (Iford Arts), Aristea in L’Olimpiade (Buxton Festival), Meg Page in Falstaff (Glyndebourne on Tour), Woman/Mother in Dove’s The Day After (ENO Baylis) and Cornelia in Giulio Cesare (Glyndebourne Festival). Notable concert performances include Rossini’s Stabat Mater (Ulster Orchestra), Dido and Aeneas (Spitalfields Festival), Messiah (Kristiansund), Ravel’s Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé (LPO) andSchumann’s Frauenliebe und - leben and Elgar’s Sea Pictures (Opéra de Lille). Plans include Selene in Berenice (Royal Opera).

The rest of the cast remains the same with German tenor Stefan Vinke as , Swedish soprano Nina Stemme as Brünnhilde, Austrian baritone Markus Butter as Gunther, Danish Stephen Milling as Hagen, American soprano Emily Magee as Gutrune, Scottish mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill as Waltraute, German baritone Johannes Martin Kränzle as Alberich, British contralto Claudia Huckle as First Norn,

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German soprano Irmgard Wilsmaier as Second Norn, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen as Third Norn, Australian soprano Lauren Fagan as Woglinde and English mezzo-soprano Angela Simkin as Flosshilde, conducted by Antonio Pappano.

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