Organization

Longborough Festival Opera

Conductor

Anthony Negus

Stage director

Amy Lane

Set designer

Rhiannon Newman Brown

Lighting designer

Charlie Morgan Jones

Costume designer

Emma Ryott

Video designer

Tim Baxter

Choreographer

Lorena Randi

Harry Sever

Repetiteur

Kelvin Lim

Singer

Tenor

Bradley Daley

Siegfried

Adrian Dwyer

Mime

Baritone

Paul Carey Jones

The Wanderer

Bass

Simon Wilding

Fafner

Contralto

Mae Heydorn

Erda

Mark Stone

Alberich

Soprano

Julieth Lozano Rolong

Voice of a Woodbird

Lee Bisset

Brünnhilde

German

Longborough

United Kingdom

The hero Siegfried reforges his father’s shattered sword, embarking on a quest for the greatest prize of all – the love of the valkyrie Brünnhilde, who lies trapped in a ring of fire.

Siegfried is the third opera in Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.  Wagner broke off composition at the end of Act II of Siegfried to write Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, returning to Siegfried seven years later.  Elements of these two operas feed into Siegfried. It features a wonderful celebration of the natural world such as the evocation of the forest in Act II. Like Tristan, it has an ecstatic love duet, as Brünnhilde and Siegfried discover each other. There is also comedy, a quality typically associated with Wagner. The opera’s lighter moments take many forms, from physical comedy (Mime’s reaction to Siegfried’s superhuman anvil-hammering), character flaws (Mime’s joy at riddle-solving, which almost tips into self-sabotage), and the hero’s revelation of Brünnhilde at the end of the opera (‘That is no man!’) which raises a laugh from audiences in some parts of the world. Longborough Festival Opera, known as the British Bayreuth, calls on renowned Wagnerian Anthony Negus to conduct and Amy Lane to stage this new production of Siegfried in the bucolic English Cotswolds.

Opera House

Siegfried Wagner,Richard

Public

Approved

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The hero Siegfried reforges his father’s shattered sword, embarking on a quest for the greatest prize of all – the love of the valkyrie Brünnhilde, who lies trapped in a ring of fire.

We return to fully staged Wagner and take another step on our journey to the Ring with this remarkably funny and exuberant third instalment of Wagner’s epic cycle.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew