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SIEGFRIED
Richard Wagner
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Richard Wagner
SIEGFRIED
2008

Soloists: 
Johnny van Hall, Frieder Aurich, Tomas Möwes
Orchestra, Chorus: 
Staatskapelle Weimar
Conductor: 
Carl St. Clair
Director: 
Michael Schulz

Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung reflects the composer’s autobiography as much as the political turmoil of his times. As work progressed, another figure grew to be as important as the hero Siegfried, the god Wotan, the mouthpiece for Wagner’s ideas. “He’s exactly like us: he is the sum of today’s intellectual consciousness, whereas Siegfried is what we hope the human being of the future will be, but who cannot be fashioned by us, and who must make himself by means of our destruction!” Our own doom as the basis of a happier future? Second ‘day’ – and third part – of Richard Wagner’s ‘Ring’, the musical saga that its author spent more than a quarter of a century composing. It follows the rise of a young hero, Siegfried, the illegitimate son of the twins whose story we were told in Die Walküre. On the one hand, there is learning about life, glorying in nature and in the emotions, as opposed to those of calculation and greed on the other. This episode shows how Wagner was intent on changing society, on showing that a different kind of man can exist, that the mercenary petit bourgeois world can be replaced by greater humanity and freedom.
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THE REOPENING PERFORMANCE OF THE STAATSOPER UNTER DEN LINDEN ON 03 OCTOBER 2017.

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Richard Wagner
In “Siegfried”, the “Second Day” or third evening of the “Ring” Cycle, we meet the pivotal hero of the epic tale. The energetic drive from “Die Walküre” is pursued here while Siegfried finally recaptures the mighty ring from Fafner the Dragon and awakens Brünnhilde from her penal sleep on the great rock. Lance Ryan,(...)