Prom 20 (part 2): Wagner - Gotterdammerung
Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in Act 2 of the final opera of Wagner's epic Ring cycle, Gotterdammerung.
Wagner 200
Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim live at the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms in the final opera of Wagner's epic Ring Cycle: Götterdämmerung - The Twilight of the Gods.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Prologue & Act 1 (concert performance, sung in German)
18.30 Interval
19.05 Act 2
20.10 Interval
20.45 Act 3
Brünnhilde .... Nina Stemme (soprano)
Siegfried .... Andreas Schager (tenor)
Hagen .... Mikhail Petrenko (bass)
Gunther .... Gerd Grochowski (bass-baritone)
Gutrune / Third Norn .... Anna Samuil (soprano)
Alberich .... Johannes Martin Kränzle (bass-baritone)
Waltraute / Second Norn .... Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano)
First Norn .... Margarita Nekrasova (contralto)
Woglinde .... Aga Mikolaj (soprano)
Wellgunde .... Maria Gortsevskaya (soprano)
Flosshilde .... Anna Lapkovskaja (mezzo-soprano)
Royal Opera Chorus
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Tom Service presents the final leg of Daniel Barenboim's Ring Cycle with the Staatskapelle Berlin - the first ever complete cycle at the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms. And it's not a happy ending: Götterdämmerung - The Twilight of the Gods - is the darkest of the four operas. The ecstatic love of Siegfried and Brünnhilde, celebrated at the end of the previous opera, is under threat from the plotting of the cunning Hagen. As the son of Alberich who created the all-powerful golden Ring, Hagen's single purpose is to regain the Ring at all costs. Soon Siegfried's fate is sealed: can Brünnhilde save the world?s.
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Broadcast
- Sun 28 Jul 2013 18:50Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3
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