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Wagner - Siegfried 
Our Price: £28.95
Format: DVD - NTSC
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Artist(s): Johnny Van Hall, Frieder Aurich, Tomas Mowes, Mario Hoff, Hidekazu Tsumaya, Catherine Foster, Heike Porstein, Nadine Weissmann, Staatskapelle Weimar
Conductor(s): Carl St Clair
Release Date: 28th June 2009
More Details on Wagner - Siegfried
Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung reflects the composer’s autobiography as much as the political turmoil of his times. As work progressed, another figure grew to be as important as the hero Siegfried, the god Wotan, the mouthpiece for Wagner’s ideas. “He’s exactly like us: he is the sum of today’s intellectual consciousness, whereas Siegfried is what we hope the human being of the future will be, but who cannot be fashioned by us, and who must make himself by means of our destruction!” Our own doom as the basis of a happier future?
This is the second ‘day’ – and third part – of Richard Wagner’s ‘Ring’, the musical saga that its author spent more than a quarter of a century composing. It follows the rise of a young hero, Siegfried, the illegitimate son of the twins whose story we were told in Die Walküre. On the one hand, there is learning about life, glorying in nature and in the emotions, as opposed to those of calculation and greed on the other.
This episode shows how Wagner was intent on changing society, on showing that a different kind of man can exist, that the mercenary petit bourgeois world can be replaced by greater humanity and freedom.
"Carl St.Clair is adept at handling both the apocalyptic mood of the music and the translucent shimmering of the forest. A brilliant achievement." - Frankfurter Rundschau
"Michael Schulz has staged a Siegfried in which careful attention to detail and grand-scale gestures are perfectly complemented by an abundance of fascinating ideas" - Opernglas
Cast:
- Siegfried: Johnny Van Hall
- Mime: Frieder Aurich
- Wotan As Wanderer: Tomas Möwes
- Alberich: Mario Hoff
- Fafner: Hidekazu Tsumaya
- Brünnhilde: Catherine Foster
- Forest Bird: Heike Porstein
- Erda: Nadine Weissmann
Director: Michael Schulz
Set Design: Dirk Becker
Costume Design: Renée Listerdal
Live Recording From Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar 2008.
Sound Format: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1
Picture Format: 16:9
DVD Format: 2 x DVD 9, NTSC
Menu Language: GB
Subtitle Languages: IT, GB, DE, FR, ES, Japanese
Running Time: 251 mins
FSK: 0
Worldwide available
This is the second ‘day’ – and third part – of Richard Wagner’s ‘Ring’, the musical saga that its author spent more than a quarter of a century composing. It follows the rise of a young hero, Siegfried, the illegitimate son of the twins whose story we were told in Die Walküre. On the one hand, there is learning about life, glorying in nature and in the emotions, as opposed to those of calculation and greed on the other.
This episode shows how Wagner was intent on changing society, on showing that a different kind of man can exist, that the mercenary petit bourgeois world can be replaced by greater humanity and freedom.
"Carl St.Clair is adept at handling both the apocalyptic mood of the music and the translucent shimmering of the forest. A brilliant achievement." - Frankfurter Rundschau
"Michael Schulz has staged a Siegfried in which careful attention to detail and grand-scale gestures are perfectly complemented by an abundance of fascinating ideas" - Opernglas
Cast:
- Siegfried: Johnny Van Hall
- Mime: Frieder Aurich
- Wotan As Wanderer: Tomas Möwes
- Alberich: Mario Hoff
- Fafner: Hidekazu Tsumaya
- Brünnhilde: Catherine Foster
- Forest Bird: Heike Porstein
- Erda: Nadine Weissmann
Director: Michael Schulz
Set Design: Dirk Becker
Costume Design: Renée Listerdal
Live Recording From Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar 2008.
Sound Format: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1
Picture Format: 16:9
DVD Format: 2 x DVD 9, NTSC
Menu Language: GB
Subtitle Languages: IT, GB, DE, FR, ES, Japanese
Running Time: 251 mins
FSK: 0
Worldwide available
