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Wagner - Siegfried | C-AVI AVI8553544

Wagner - Siegfried

Label: C-AVI

Cat No: AVI8553544

Barcode: 4260085535446

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 22nd October 2021

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Contents

Artists

Corby Welch
Linda Watson
James Rutherford
Jochen Schmeckenbecher
Cornel Frey
Lukasz Konieczny
Aisha Tuemmler
Renee Morloc
Duisburger Philharmoniker

Conductor

Axel Kober

Works

Wagner, Richard

Siegfried

Artists

Corby Welch
Linda Watson
James Rutherford
Jochen Schmeckenbecher
Cornel Frey
Lukasz Konieczny
Aisha Tuemmler
Renee Morloc
Duisburger Philharmoniker

Conductor

Axel Kober

About

A live recording of concert performances from the Düsseldorf Opera in 2019.

“The Rhine is where Richard Wagner’s cycle of operas
Der Ring des Nibelungen begins and ends – and it was beside the Rhine in 1851 that the composer first dreamed of this equally visionary and monumental work.

“Even if Wagner’s plans for a festival would ultimately be realised in an entirely different part of Germany, the performance of a ‘Ring on the Rhine’ will always remain something very special.

“And where better to make this happen than at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein? Two cities, two orchestras, two casts of singers – with the Rhine opera’s fantastic ensemble of singers and its two outstanding orchestras, the Duisburger Philharmoniker and the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, at their two venues in Duisburg und Düsseldorf, the essential conditions were in place.

“The ‘Ring on the Rhine’ staged by Dietrich W. Hilsdorf and under my own musical direction gradually began to take shape from June 2017 onwards...

“However, a few weeks before the premiere of
Götterdämmerung, a defective sprinkler system flooded the theatre Duisburg. The damage this caused made the staged ‘Ring’ cycle in Duisburg (for the time being) completely impossible. Fortunately, on short notice we had the opportunity to perform the Ring des Nibelungen at least in concert form in Duisburg at the nearby Mercatorhalle.

“Soon after we started rehearsing, we realised that this supposed ‘emergency solution’ had turned out to be a real stroke of luck. In the brilliant acoustics of the concert hall the singing voices and the sound of the orchestra came together to create a thrilling experience for the listeners - one that our audience greeted with standing ovations. A desire was soon expressed to make the experience available to a wider public beyond this one-time concert performance.

“The result is this live recording of all four parts of the ‘Ring’ cycle...”

– Axel Kober

Cast:
- Siegfried: Corby Welch
- Mime: Cornel Frey
- Wanderer: James Rutherford
- Alberich: Jochen Schmeckenbecher
- Fafner: Lukasz Konieczny
- Erda: Renée Morloc
- Brünnhilde: Linda Watson
- Woodbird: Aïsha Tümmler

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