Siegfried - Zweiter Tag aus dem Bühnenfestspiel Der Ring des Nibelungen
The premiere of Siegfried was on 16 August 1876 at the Festival House in Bayreuth, as part of a complete Ring cycle. Conductor was Hans Richter.
Mime (Graham Clark) is trying to teach Siegfried (John Treleaven) what fear is. Screenshot from Harry Kupfer's production at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, available on DVD from Opus Arte.
Siegfried (as part of the complete Ring des Nibelungen) was produced in the following cities the first years after the world premiere at the Bayreuth Festival on 16 August 1876
| 1878 | München |
| 1879 | Wien |
| 1880 | Hamburg |
| 1881 | Berlin (Angelo Neumann's travelling Wagner-Theatre with guest performances in Berliner Viktoria-Theater) |
| 1882–1883 | Angelo Neumann's travelling Wagner-Theatre on tour: London (Her Majesty's Theatre), Breslau, Königsberg, Danzig, Hannover, Bremen, Barmen, Dresden, Amsterdam, Brüssel, Aachen, Düsseldorf, Mainz, Darmstadt, Karlsruhe, Strassburg, Stuttgart, Basel, Venice, Bologna, Rome, Torino, Triest, Budapest, Graz – totaling 135 performances of the Ring! |
Siegfried, Act 1
Siegfried René Kollo Mime Helmut Pampuch Wanderer Robert Hale
Conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch, Stage director Nikolaus Lehnhoff
Live recording, 1989 (only available on CD now)
Siegfried on DVD
Siegfried on CD
The titles of Richard Wagner's operas in different languages
Famous quotes from Siegfried
Siegfried
Das ist kein Mann!
Said about Siegfried
On the page Siegfried doesn’t look that daunting – just long – but when I did it I realised how impossible it is to have an absolute success as Siegfried. It requires three different tenor voices, incredible stamina, and no matter how well you do it you will have two-thirds of the audience not liking you – one-third want only baritonal heft, others only want a steely sound coming out, whilst the others want an extraordinarily youthful Windgassen sound.
Stephen Gould in an interview with Jim Pritchard
Der Ring des Nibelungen on DVD
Robert Lepage / Metropolitan
Deborah Voigt, Bryn Terfel, Jay Hunter Morris, Jonas Kaufmann, Stephanie Blythe, Hans-Peter König, Eric Owens, Gerhard Siegel, Eva-Maria Westbroek |
Patrice Chéreau / Boulez / Bayreuth
Donald McIntyre, Gwyneth Jones, Heinz Zednik, Peter Hofmann, Manfred Jung, Jeannine Altmeyer, Matti Salminen, Hermann Becht, Franz Mazura, Fritz Hübner, Helmut Pampuch |
Harry Kupfer / Daniel Barenboim / Bayreuth
John Tomlinson, Anne Evans, Poul Elming, Nadine Secunde, Graham Clark, Helmut Pampuch, Bodo Brinkmann, Günter von Kannen, Philip Kang, Matthias Hölle, Linda Finnie, Birgitta Svendén |
Otto Schenk / James Levine / Metropolitan
James Morris, Hildegard Behrens, Siegfried Jerusalem, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Heinz Zednik, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Matti Salminen, Christa Ludwig, Gary Lakes, Jessye Norman, Kurt Moll |
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Other links to Siegfried
Der Ring des Nibelungen (complete recordings) on CD
