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Category: Siegfried

  • SF Opera’s Siegfried Cycle 1

    * Notes * San Francisco Opera‘s current Ring cycle continued with beautifully played Siegfried (Act II pictured left, photo by Cory Weaver) last night. There was also much fine singing. The orchestra seems more settled than in the previous two performances of the cycle, there were fewer intonation errors in the brass, and the horn solo…

  • Siegfried at the Bayreuther Festpiele

    * Notes * A second performance of the new Siegfried at Bayreuth was held on Saturday. It seems that Frank Castorf put more time into this opera than the previous two of Der Ring des Nibulungen, and the results are unfortunate. The action is set at Bahnhof Alexanderplatz in Berlin and an alternate version of Mount…

  • Siegfried at the Met (Cycle 2)

    * Notes * The second Ring cycle this season at the Met continued last night with Siegfried. The production, directed by Robert Lepage, proved to be even more traditional than its most recent predecessor. Here we have both bear and giant serpent, and so many of Lionel Arnould's projected images are literally from the text. The…

  • Casting Change for The Met’s Siegfried & Götterdämmerung

    Jay Hunter Morris (pictured left, photograph by Ken Howard) in the title role of the Metropolitan Opera’s Siegfried, on April 21 and 30, 2012, as part of Ring Cycles 1 and 2. Morris will also sing Siegfried in Götterdämmerung for the second RingCycle on May 3, 2012. Lehman has withdrawn due to illness. The Met’s…

  • Casting Change for The Met’s Siegfried

    Jay Hunter Morris (pictured left, photograph by Ron Rinaldi) will replace Gary Lehman in the title role of Metropolitan Opera’s new Siegfried, which opens October 27. Lehman has withdrawn due to illness. The Met’s Press Releases | The Met’s Official Site

  • SF Opera’s Siegfried Cycle 2

    * Notes * San Francisco Opera‘s second Ring cycle continued with Siegfried (Act II, Scene 3 pictured left, photo by Cory Weaver) on Friday. The orchestra played clearly. The sound of the off-stage horn in Act II, Scene 2 was clean and pleasant. The music for Siegfried passing through the magic fire at the end of…

  • SF Opera’s Siegfried Cycle 1

    * Notes * San Francisco Opera's current Ring cycle continued with Siegfried (Act III, Scene 3 pictured left, photo by Cory Weaver) last night. The production, from Francesca Zambello, portrays the title character as an artless, troubled youth in an urban fairytale. The comedy of the work is clear, but other aspects of the production are…

  • SF Opera’s Siegfried Media Round-Up

    Production Web Site | SF Opera's Ring Blog Reviews of San Francisco Opera's Siegfried (Jay Hunter Morris as Siegfried and Nina Stemme as Brünnhilde pictured left, photo by Cory Weaver) are coming in, and it certainly makes for interesting reading. Performance Reviews: Financial Times | Not For Fun Only | The Reverberate Hills | San…

  • Siegfried at SF Opera

    * Notes * Francesca Zambello's production of Siegfried (pictured left, photo by Cory Weaver) opened today at San Francisco Opera. Though this opera is nearly 4 hours of music, it breezed by this afternoon. The orchestra was luminious under Donald Runnicles. The brass was warm with only a bit of haziness, and most of the horn…

  • Final Dress of SF Opera’s Siegfried

    * Notes * The final dress rehearsal of San Francisco Opera's Siegfried (Act I pictured left, photo by Cory Weaver) was last Thursday. There was a little roughness in the brass, but the orchestra generally sounded quite pretty under Maestro Runnicles. The production is consistent with both Das Rheingold and Die Walküre. There were some…