Wagner: Siegfried

Siegfried: Jon Fredric West / Mime: Heinz Gohrig / Der Wanderer: Wolfgang Schone / Alberich: Bjorn Waag / Fafner: Attila Jun / Waldvogel: Gabriela Herrera / Erda: Helene Ranada / Brunnhilde: Lisa Gasteen
Conductor: Lothar Zagrosek / Orchestra: Staatsorchester Stuttgart

Richard Wagner: Siegfried

Not since the so-called "100 Year Ring" (Bayreuth, 1976 to 1980) has a performance of Richard Wagner's monumental cycle created such a sensation as the Stuttgart productions. Each of the four parts was staged under a different team of directors and with a different cast, an unusual approach that had never before been realised on this scale. The four individual productions garnered the praise of national and international critics, who voted the Stuttgart Staatsoper "Opera House of the Year" three times in a row, not least because of this Ring.
Jossi Wieler's direction, in sets by Anna Viebrock, exercises an unprecedented power of suggestion to draw from Siegfried the glummest of all comedies, making laughter die in the throat, and presenting only one negative figure: the Wanderer, Wotan.
Lothar Zagrosek once again offers a masterclass in the art of swift but sonorous Wagnerian conducting - reason enough to buy this release" The Independent on DV-OPRDNW: Die Walkure

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