Organization

Wagner in Budapest

Conductor

Adam Fisher

Stage director

Hartmut Schörghofer

Set designer

Costume designer

Corinna Crome

Lighting designer

Máté Vajda

Choreographer

Gábor Vida

Dramaturge

Christian Martin Fuchs

Christian Baier

Singer

Tenor

Stefan Vinke

Siegfried

Baritone

Károly Szemerédy

Gunther

Bass

Albert Dohmen

Hagen

Jochen Schmeckenbecher

Alberich

Soprano

Catherine Foster

Brünnhilde

Polina Pastirchak

Gutrune

Mezzo-soprano

Petra Lang

Waltraute

Contralto

Anna Csenge Fürjes

First Norn

Judit Németh

Second Norn

Third Norn

Orsolya Sáfár

Woglinde

Gabriella Fodor

Wellgunde

Zsófia Kálnay

Flosshilde

First Assistant Director

Etelka Polgár

Assistant to the Choreographer

Dóra Asztalos

Others

Budapest Studio Choir

Hungarian Radio Choir

Orchestra

Hungarian Radio Symphonic Orchestra

Müpa Budapest

German

Götterdämmerung

Budapest

Hungary

Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Public

The Twilight of the Gods

Hungarian

English

Approved

It was a telling artistic decision on Wagner's part to have Wotan, the central figure in the story and the mover behind every development in the plot, absent from the final piece in the tetralogy. We only hear about him indirectly from Waltraute. Or is Wotan perhaps not the most important character after all, and that distinction should go instead to the disgraced and banished Valkyrie Brünnhilde? In a moral sense, she surely is. Wotan is a fallible god who violates the treaties inscribed in runes on his spear: sacred contracts over which he himself is the custodian. The pure, noble and courageous Brünnhilde, on the other hand, is a living memento of the command "Be worthy". When she leaps onto Siegfried's funeral pyre with her steed, Grane, this is not death but rather the ecstasy of a final reunification. After having portrayed Siegfried as invulnerable, the marvellous German heldentenor Stefan Vinke will now present him as being vulnerable, and the role of Brünnhilde will be played by Catherine Foster. With his dark vocal cords, German singer Albert Dohmen will bring a granite-hard character to his portrayal of Hagen. The international production also features many outstanding Hungarians in the cast, for example, with Károly Szemerédy taking the Müpa Budapest stage as Gunther and Polina Pasztircsák as Gutrune and Third Norn.

Götterdämmerung by Wagner, Richard, From (2022/2022), Directed by Hartmut Schörghofer,, Conductor Adam Fisher, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Budapest, Hungary

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