Father And Son: Wagner Scenes And Arias

Tui award winner New Zealander and heldentenor Simon O’Neill has recorded a solo album for EMI Classics featuring scenes and arias
from Wagner’s Lohengrin, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung and Parsifal. O’Neill, “one of the most exciting tenor
voices of his generation,” is partnered by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra under conductor Pietari Inkinen.

Also featured are Susan Bullock as Sieglinde and Kundry, and Sir John Tomlinson as Hagen.

Recorded in collaboration with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Radio New Zealand, the CD will be released in
New Zealand in February 2010 to coincide with a Simon O’Neill Wagner Gala in Wellington and other events. The
international release will follow in April 2010.

Simon O’Neill has been hailed as one of today’s finest heldentenors. In a matter of only a few years, he has become a
principal artist with the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the Salzburg Festival, appearing
internationally with conductors including James Levine, Riccardo Muti, Valery Gergiev, Antonio Pappano, Daniel
Barenboim and Pierre Boulez.