Name: Siegfried
Start: 1990-04-26T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1990-04-26T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Conductor

James Levine

Singer

Soprano

Hildegard Behrens

Brünnhilde

Tenor

Siegfried Jerusalem

Siegfried

Baritone

James Morris

The Wanderer

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

German

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Siegfried’s magical world is brilliantly evoked in this Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production. Our storybook hero (Siegfried Jerusalem) forges his sword, uses it to kill the dragon (marvelous Matti Salminen as Fafner), discovers treasure, and awakens the sleeping Brünnhilde (a powerful Hildegard Behrens), oblivious to the ring of fire that has been protecting her. James Morris, in sumptuous voice, is deeply moving as the Wanderer, the god who cannot stop Siegfried’s destiny.This is James Levine and the Met orchestra at their very best.

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