Götterdämmerung - Schedule, Program & Tickets

CAST:
SIEGFRIED
Michael Weinius / Corby Welch
GUNTHER
Bogdan Baciu / Richard Šveda
ALBERICH
Michael Kraus / Stefan Heidemann
HAGEN
Hans-Peter König / Sami Luttinen
BRÜNNHILDE
Linda Watson / Heike Wessels
GUTRUNE
Sylvia Hamvasi / Anke Krabbe
WALTRAUTE
Katarzyna Kuncio / Sarah Ferede
1. NORN
Susan Maclean / Renée Morloc
2. NORN
Sarah Ferede / Annika Schlicht
3. NORN
Morenike Fadayomi / Barno Ismatullaeva
WOGLINDE
Anke Krabbe / Heidi Elisabeth Meier
WELLGUNDE
Kimberley Boettger-Soller
FLOSSHILDE
Ramona Zaharia / Anna Harvey
CHOR
Chor der Deutschen Oper am Rhein
ORCHESTER
Düsseldorfer Symphoniker / Duisburger Philharmoniker

The third day of the ‘Ring des Nibelungen’ begins with Erda’s daughters, the Norns, reminding us of the fateful deeds of times past. They are compelled by a corrupt world to weave their fateful threads together until they are tangled in a kind of Gordian knot, a web of power, greed, guilt and transgression.

The gods may have been disempowered but Alberich is still at large: in a whisper he tells his son Hagen to kill Siegfried and win back the ring. Hagen succeeds in gaining Siegfried’s trust in order to be able to murder him. Siegfried’s willingness to be taken in is a renewed sign of the devastating effects of the ring of the Nibelungs. Only when Brünnhilde returns it to the Rhine maidens does the curse appear to be broken. What follows is the fall of the old world which has to end for a new one to be able to rise in its place.