«Götterdämmerung»
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Dresdner Festspielorchester
Concerto Köln
Dresdner Festspielchor der Richard-Wagner-Akademie
Kent Nagano, conductor
Young Woo Kim, Siegfried
Johannes Kammler, Gunther
Daniel Schmutzhard, Alberich
Patrick Zielke, Hagen
Åsa Jäger, Brünnhilde
Sophia Brommer, Gutrune
Olivia Vermeulen, Waltraute
Jasmin Etminan, Erste Norn
Marie Luise Dressen, Zweite Norn
Valentina Farcas, Dritte Norn
Ania Vegry, Woglinde
Ida Aldrian, Wellgunde
Eva Vogel, Floßhilde
Richard Wagner: "Götterdämmerung", Dritter Tag des Bühnenfestspiels "Der Ring des Nibelungen"
Forget everything you think you know about Wagner! Kent Nagano, the Dresden Festival Orchestra, and Concerto Köln are setting new standards with their performance of the "Ring" cycle. For the first time ever, this monumental project is being heard in a historically informed interpretation. Just as in Wagner's own day, the string players use gut strings; the wind instruments are reconstructed based on 19th-century models; the orchestra's tuning is lower; and the text is at times declaimed rather than traditionally "sung". Suddenly everything becomes intelligible – and at times it almost recalls the delivery of art song. Working with an international research team, Nagano has brought surprising insights to light. The result is striking. "Light and airy" is how Jan Brachmann described this Wagner in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; in particular, the winds impress "with sharper definition in their individual colors: they creak, belch, and grunt with a kind of unruly physicality". With "Götterdämmerung", the "Ring" comes full circle this summer. And once more we have the chance to experience Wagner's music as he himself most likely heard it.
Photo © Priska Ketterer / Lucerne Festival
Concerto Köln
Dresdner Festspielchor der Richard-Wagner-Akademie
Kent Nagano, conductor
Young Woo Kim, Siegfried
Johannes Kammler, Gunther
Daniel Schmutzhard, Alberich
Patrick Zielke, Hagen
Åsa Jäger, Brünnhilde
Sophia Brommer, Gutrune
Olivia Vermeulen, Waltraute
Jasmin Etminan, Erste Norn
Marie Luise Dressen, Zweite Norn
Valentina Farcas, Dritte Norn
Ania Vegry, Woglinde
Ida Aldrian, Wellgunde
Eva Vogel, Floßhilde
Richard Wagner: "Götterdämmerung", Dritter Tag des Bühnenfestspiels "Der Ring des Nibelungen"
Forget everything you think you know about Wagner! Kent Nagano, the Dresden Festival Orchestra, and Concerto Köln are setting new standards with their performance of the "Ring" cycle. For the first time ever, this monumental project is being heard in a historically informed interpretation. Just as in Wagner's own day, the string players use gut strings; the wind instruments are reconstructed based on 19th-century models; the orchestra's tuning is lower; and the text is at times declaimed rather than traditionally "sung". Suddenly everything becomes intelligible – and at times it almost recalls the delivery of art song. Working with an international research team, Nagano has brought surprising insights to light. The result is striking. "Light and airy" is how Jan Brachmann described this Wagner in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; in particular, the winds impress "with sharper definition in their individual colors: they creak, belch, and grunt with a kind of unruly physicality". With "Götterdämmerung", the "Ring" comes full circle this summer. And once more we have the chance to experience Wagner's music as he himself most likely heard it.
Photo © Priska Ketterer / Lucerne Festival
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