Organization

Admin

Wagner in Budapest

Müpa Budapest

Conductor

Adam Fischer

Dramaturge

Christian Martin Fuchs

Christian Baier

Costume designer

Corinna Crome

Puppet design

Lighting designer

Máté Vajda

Choreographer

Gábor Vida

Assistant Conductor

János Kovács

Repetiteur

László Bartal

Gabor Bartinai

Dóra Bizják

Martin Rajna

Revival Director

Etelka Polgár

Stage director

Hartmut Schörghofer

Orchestra

Hungarian Radio Symphonic Orchestra

Others

Hungarian Radio Choir

Budapest Studio Choir

Singer

Tenor

Stefan Vinke

Siegfried

Baritone

Birger Radde

Gunther

Bass

Albert Pesendorfer

Hagen

Soprano

Iréne Theorin

Brünnhilde

Lilla Horti

Gutrune

Mezzo-soprano

Dorottya Láng

Waltraute

Contralto

Erika Gál

First Norn

Judit Németh

Second Norn

Andrea Brassói-Jőrös

Third Norn

Orsolya Sáfár

Woglinde

Gabriella Fodor

Wellgunde

Zsófia Kálnay

Flosshilde

Jochen Schmeckenbecher

Alberich

German

Götterdämmerung -  (The Twilight of the Gods)

Budapest

Hungary

Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Götterdämmerung Wagner,Richard

Public

The Twilight of the Gods

Anna-Maria Gkouni

Hungarian

Approved

It was a telling artistic decision on Wagner's part to have Wotan, the central figure in the story and the mover behind every development in the plot, absent from the final piece in the tetralogy. We only hear about him indirectly from Waltraute. Or is Wotan perhaps not the most important character after all, and that distinction should go instead to the disgraced and banished Valkyrie Brünnhilde? In a moral sense, she surely is. Wotan is a fallible god who violates the treaties inscribed in runes on his spear: sacred contracts over which he himself is the custodian. The pure, noble and courageous Brünnhilde, on the other hand, is a living memento of the command "Be worthy". When she leaps onto Siegfried's funeral pyre with her steed, Grane, this is not death but rather the ecstasy of a final reunification. After having portrayed Siegfried as invulnerable, the marvellous German heldentenor Stefan Vinke will now present him as being vulnerable, and the role of Brünnhilde will once again be split at the two performances between two sopranos: the Swede Iréne Theorin and Britain's Catherine Foster. With his dark vocal cords, German singer Albert Dohmen will bring a granite-hard character to his portrayal of Hagen. The international production also features many outstanding Hungarians in the cast, for example, with Károly Szemerédy taking the Müpa Budapest stage as Gunther and Polina Pasztircsák as Gutrune and Third Norn.

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