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On September 4, Ryan McKinny performs at San Francisco Symphony’s Opening Night, a spectacular celebration of Michael Tilson Thomas’ 25th and final season as Music Director. Joining him on stage are Susanna Phillips, Jennifer Johnson Cano and Jonathan Tetelman. Don’t miss the...
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On August 20, BR-Klassik will broadcast the first performance of Parsifal, recorded on July 30, thus closing the Bayreuth summer festival season for the year. Ryan McKinny is Amfortas, who has been the ruler of the Grail kingdom at the Bayreuther Festspiele since 2016, when he premiered the...
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For seven performances from July 30 until August 26, Ryan McKinny portrays Amfortas in Wagner’s Parsifal at the Bayreuther Festspiele. The rest of the cast features Andreas Schager as Parsifal, Günther Groissböck as Gurnemanz, Wilhelm Schwinghammer as Titurel, Derek Welton as Klingsor and...
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Deutsche Grammophon came to the Walt Disney Concert Hall to preserve the historic performance of Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand” that Ryan McKinny sung, joined by a star-studded roster of soloists including Tamara Wilson, Leah Crocetto, Erin Morley, Mihoko Fujimura, Tamara Mumford,...
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On May 30 and 31, and June 2, Ryan McKinny graces the stage of the Walt Disney Concert Hall as one of the soloists in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, also known as the “Symphony of a Thousand”. Gustavo Dudamel leads the LA Philharmonic, and he shares the stage with Tamara Wilson, Leah...
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From April 20 until May 5, Ryan McKinny graces the stage of the Houston Grand Opera, where he makes his role debut as the title role in Don Giovanni. Mozart’s masterpiece returns to HGO in a stunning new production by Kasper Holten. Es Devlin’s innovative, rotating set and Luke...
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From February 28 – March 17, Ryan McKinny stars as Clarence in John Adams’ Girls of the Golden West at the Dutch National Opera. Girls of the Golden West is set in the hardscrabble world of the miners who went to dig for their fortunes in the 1850s California Gold Rush. Simmering...
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On January 11 and 13, Ryan McKinny stars as the Dutchman in a concert version of Wagner’s thrilling Der Fliegende Holländer in Milwaukee. Wagner’s most concise opera is a sweeping allegory of the redemptive power of unconditional love. An internationally-acclaimed cast, with Melody...
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Ryan McKinny stars as Wotan in Wagner’s Das Rheingold at Opéra de Montréal on November 10, 13, 15 and 17. The rest of the cast features Nathan Berg as Alberich, David Cangelosi as Mime, Aidan Ferguson as Fricka and Caroline Bleau as Freia. Michael Christie lead the orchestra.
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In honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony unveil their latest digital release: Bernstein’s personal and vacillating song cycle Arias and Barcarolles. In this recording, MTT enlivens a work he premiered with the composer, and shares...