Wagner: Siegfried

Johnny van Hal (Siegfried), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde), Frieder Aurich (Mime), Tomas Möwes (Der Wanderer), Mario Hoff (Alberich), Hidekazu Tsumaya (Fafner), Nadine Weissmann (Erda) & Heike Porstein (Waldvogel)

Staatskapelle Weimar, Carl St. Clair (conductor) & Michael Schulz (director)

Release Date: 29th Jun 2009
Catalogue No: 101358
Label: Arthaus Musik

Wagner: Siegfried

Live Recording from The Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar 2008
Johnny van Hal (Siegfried), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde), Frieder Aurich (Mime), Tomas Möwes (Der Wanderer), Mario Hoff (Alberich), Hidekazu Tsumaya (Fafner), Nadine Weissmann (Erda) & Heike Porstein (Waldvogel)
Staatskapelle Weimar
Carl St. Clair (conductor) & Michael Schulz (director)

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Interview, Catherine Foster on Wagner

16th April 2020

The British dramatic soprano, who sings Brünnhilde on the Weimar Ring Cycle which is now available on Arthaus Musik, talks to Katherine about her remarkable journey from midwifery to Bayreuth.

Set Design By Dirk Becker & Costume Design By Renée Listerdal.

Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung refl ects 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.

Running Time: 251 min
Picture Format: 16:9
Sound Format: PCM Stereo, dts-HD Master Audio 5.1
Blue Ray Disc, 50 GB (Dual Layer)
Subtitle Languages: IT, GB, D, F, SP
Menu Language: GB

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