Siegfried

Composer: Wagner, Richard

Librettist/Text Author: Wagner, Richard

Conductor: Zagrosek, Lothar

Orchestra: Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra

Alberich: Waag, Bjorn

Brunnhilde: Gasteen, Lisa

Der Waldvogel: Herrera, Gabriela

Der Wanderer: Schone, Wolfgang

Erda: Ranada, Helene

Fafner: Jun, Attila

Mime: Gohrig, Heinz

Siegfried: West, Jon Frederic

Producer: Schickling, Dieter

Set Designer: Viebrock, Anna

Costume Designer: Viebrock, Anna

Lighting Designer: Billino, Dieter

Stage Director: Wieler, Jossi

Stage Director: Morabito, Sergio

Television Director: Hulscher, Hans

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Date of Production: 05-01-2003

Venue: Staatstheater Stuttgart

Playing Time: 04:11:00

Catalogue Number: EuroArts5208

UPC: 880242520883

Libretto

Siegfried

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Synopsis

Siegfried

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In this live recording of the third part of the tetralogy, Jon Fredric West's Siegfried is joined by Lisa Gasteen as Brunnhilde. Jossi Wieler's direction of the opera is set among designs by Anna Viebrock. The production is marked by the unprecedented power of suggestion in the gloomiest of all comedies; one which makes laughter die in the throat, and yet the only truly negative figure to emerge from the opera is the Wanderer, Wotan. The performances of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle in Stuttgart created a sensation unheard of since the monumental "century" Ring in Bayreuth in the late seventies. "Four operas - four stage directors" was the artistic idea behind the 1999/2000 cycle under the musical direction of Lothar Zagrosek. Appreciating the individual operas of "Der Ring des Nibelungen" without having to relate to previous or subsequent storylines enabled the stage directors handpicked among the successful Stuttgart Opera team surrounding Artistic Director Klaus Zehelein to express their individual insights into the well-known drama of Siegfried and Wotan. In 2002 German critics voted Stuttgart's Staatsoper "Opera House of the Year" for the fourth time in five years. This series was recorded live at revival performances in 2002 and 2003, and it pays tribute to the artistic and musical achievement of the Stuttgart Opera House and a wonderful cast of singers.