Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Siegfried: Albert Bonnema / Gunther: Hernan Iturralde / Alberich: Franz-Josef Kapellmann / Hagen: Roland Bracht / Brunnhilde: Luana DeVol / Gutrune: Eva-Maria / Westbroek Waltraute: Tichina Vaughn / 1. Norn: Janet Collins / 2. Norn: Lani Poulson / 3. Norn: Sue Patchell / Woglinde: Helga Ros Indridadottir / Wellgunde: Sarah Castle / Floshilde: Janet Collins
Staatsoper Stuttgart / Conductor: Lothar Zagrosek

Richard Wagner: Gotterdammerung

The fourth and final part of Wagner's masterpiece, his epic Ring Cycle, given a revolutionary treatment by the Stuttgart Opera.
For the first time in the history of The Ring cycle, each of its four sections was given to a different stage-director, providing an exciting range of varying perspectives with a unified theme. The decision to stage Wagner's Ring in four separate pieces, rather than as a single, integrated work spread over four evenings, liberated Gotterdammerung in particular from a need to draw together the threads of a holistic concept of the work.
Director Peter Konwitschny chooses to ignore the wider myth-bound associations of the work and concentrates on the immediate motivations, emotions and obsessions of the characters. Gone are the gods awaiting nightfall in their imposing hall; the action instead is set on a simple wooden stage of a touring theatre company.

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