Siegfried - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Siegfried
CAST
SIEGFRIED
Corby Welch / Michael Weinius
MIME
Cornel Frey
DER WANDERER
James Rutherford / Simon Neal
ALBERICH
Stefan Heidemann / Michael Kraus
FAFNER
Lukasz Konieczny / Thorsten Grümbel
ERDA
Renée Morloc / Susan Maclean
BRÜNNHILDE
Heike Wessels / Linda Watson
WALDVOGEL
Elena Sancho Pereg
ORCHESTER
Duisburger Philharmoniker / Düsseldorfer Symphoniker
Once the ruler of the earth, Wotan has become an impotent wanderer, watching from a distance as his grandson Siegfried is raised by the dwarf Mime. Without a care and educated without any knowledge of history, he fearlessly kills anything in his way. In this way, Mime hopes that Siegfried will enable him to reclaim the ring from Alberich. But Siegfried rebels against his foster father, forces him to reveal the secret of his ancestry and moves away in order to learn fear. Guided by his intuition alone he finds Brünnhilde, cast into an everlasting sleep. The couple celebrate their union as a “luminous love, laughing death.” It appears as if the power of love has defeated that of greed.
Richard Wagner is a revolutionary philosopher entirely within Bakunin’s anarchist tradition, according to which the old order has to be destroyed before a new one can be created. Siegfried breaks all the rules: institutionalized rulers are deposed by their laughing grandchildren. The new generation shows no interest in power but allows itself to be taken advantage of quite easily, as Wagner goes on to show in ‘Götterdämmerung’.
SIEGFRIED
Corby Welch / Michael Weinius
MIME
Cornel Frey
DER WANDERER
James Rutherford / Simon Neal
ALBERICH
Stefan Heidemann / Michael Kraus
FAFNER
Lukasz Konieczny / Thorsten Grümbel
ERDA
Renée Morloc / Susan Maclean
BRÜNNHILDE
Heike Wessels / Linda Watson
WALDVOGEL
Elena Sancho Pereg
ORCHESTER
Duisburger Philharmoniker / Düsseldorfer Symphoniker
Once the ruler of the earth, Wotan has become an impotent wanderer, watching from a distance as his grandson Siegfried is raised by the dwarf Mime. Without a care and educated without any knowledge of history, he fearlessly kills anything in his way. In this way, Mime hopes that Siegfried will enable him to reclaim the ring from Alberich. But Siegfried rebels against his foster father, forces him to reveal the secret of his ancestry and moves away in order to learn fear. Guided by his intuition alone he finds Brünnhilde, cast into an everlasting sleep. The couple celebrate their union as a “luminous love, laughing death.” It appears as if the power of love has defeated that of greed.
Richard Wagner is a revolutionary philosopher entirely within Bakunin’s anarchist tradition, according to which the old order has to be destroyed before a new one can be created. Siegfried breaks all the rules: institutionalized rulers are deposed by their laughing grandchildren. The new generation shows no interest in power but allows itself to be taken advantage of quite easily, as Wagner goes on to show in ‘Götterdämmerung’.
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