The Canadian Opera Company is shuffling the cast for its upcoming production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. “Bass-baritone Peteris Eglitis, who held the key role of Wotan/the Wanderer with the COC during recent Ring-opera performances, has been taken off the bill, and soprano Frances Ginzer has been moved into second-cast position as Brunnhilde, the god’s favourite daughter… Eglitis was seen by many as a question mark in the COC’s Ring plans. His appearances in Siegfried and Die Walkure, which the company produced in 2004, showed an artist of great persuasive presence, but also ‘a voice in serious decline,’ as The New York Times’ Bernard Holland put it.”