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Richard Wagner, Twilight of the Gods, WWV 86D

Prologue - Orchestral Prelude

Prologue - "Welch‘ Licht leuchtet dort?"

Prologue - "Dämmert der Tag? Oder leuchtet die Lohe?"

Prologue - Dawn

Prologue - "Zu neuen Taten, teurer Helde"

Prologue - Siegfried's Rhine Journey

I, 1 - "Nun hör, Hagen"

I, 1 - "Brächte Siegfried die Braut dir heim, wär‘ dann nicht Brünnhilde dein?"

I, 2 - "Heil! Siegfried, teurer Held"

I, 2 - "Begrüße froh, o Held, die Halle meines Vaters"

I, 2 - "Vergäß‘ ich alles, was du mir gabst"

I, 2 - "Hast du, Gunther, ein Weib?"

I, 2 - "Was nahmst du am Eide nicht teil?"

I, 2 - "Hier sitz‘ ich zur Wacht"

I, 2 - Orchestral Interlude

I, 3 - "Altgewohntes Geräusch raunt meinem Ohr die Ferne"

I, 3 - "Höre mit Sinn, was ich dir sage!"

I, 3 - "Welch banger Träume Mären meldest du Traurige mir!"

I, 3 - "Blitzend Gewölk, vom Wind getragen, stürme dahin"

I, 3 - "Brünnhild’! Ein Freier kam, den dein Feuer nicht geschreckt!"

I, 3 - "Jetzt bist du mein, Brünnhilde, Gunthers Braut"

II - Orchestral Prelude

II, 1 - "Schläfst du, Hagen, mein Sohn?"

II, 1-2 - Orchestral Interlude

II, 2 - "Hoiho, Hagen! Müder Mann!"

II, 3 - "Hoiho! Hoihohoho! Ihr Gibichsmannen, machet euch auf!"

II, 3 - "Groß Glück und Heil lacht nun dem Rhein"

II, 4 - "Heil dir, Gunther! Heil dir und deiner Braut!"

II, 4 - "Einen Ring sah ich an deiner Hand"

II, 4 - "Helle Wehr! Heilige Waffe!'"

II, 5 - "Welches Unholds List liegt hier verhohlen?"

II, 5 - "So kann keine Wehr ihm schaden?"

II, 5 - "So wär' es Siegfrieds Ende!"

III - Orchestral Prelude

III, 1 - "Frau Sonne sendet lichte Strahlen"

III, 1 - "Ein Albe führte mich irr"

III, 1 - "Was leid ich doch das karge Lob?"

III, 1 - "Kommt, Schwestern! Schwindet dem Toren!"

III, 2 - "Hoiho!"

III, 2 - "Trink, Gunther, trink! Dein Bruder bringt es dir!"

III, 2 - "Mime hieß ein mürrischer Zwerg"

III, 2 - "In Leid zu dem Wipfel lauscht' ich hinauf"

III, 2 - "Hagen, was tatest du?"

III, 2 - Funeral March

III, 3 - "War das sein Horn?"

III, 3 - "Siegfried – Siegfried erschlagen!"

III, 3 - "Schweigt eures Jammers jauchzenden Schwall"

III, 3 - "Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort"

III, 3 - "Ruhe, ruhe, du Gott!"

III, 3 - "Grane, mein Roß, sei mir gegrüßt!"

Wagner's Götterdämmerung

Peter Konwitschny (stage director), Lothar Zagrosek (conductor) – With Albert Bonnema (Siegfried), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Gutrune) – Staatsoper Stuttgart

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Cast

Albert Bonnema — Siegfried

Hernan Iturralde — Gunther

Franz-Josef Kapellmann — Alberich

Roland Bracht — Hagen

Luana De Vol — Brünnhilde

Eva-Maria Westbroek — Gutrune

Tichina Vaughn — Waltraute

Janet Collins — First Norn

Program notes

Performed at the Opera of Stuttgart, Twilight of the Gods, the last day of the Tetralogy, reveals another side to the Wagnerian mythology.

"Four operas, four directors." The response to this singular artistic idea is Wagner's Tetralogy produced in 2000 on the stage of the Stuttgart Opera under the direction of Austrian conductor Lothar Zagrosek and filmed in 2002-2003. The Rhinegold (the Prologue) was entrusted to Joachim Schlömer, The Valkyrie to Christof Nel, Siegfried to Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito, and lastly the last day of the Ring, the Twilight of the Gods to Peter Konwitschny, a German of Polish extraction, a regular performer of Wagnerian works who directed Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Tristan and The Mastersingers of Nuremberg.

Iconoclastic and experimental, this Tetralogy created a sensation, until this Twilight of the Gods. Peter Konwitschny brings together characters in suits and ties and others in animal hides, which reveals the Wagnerian mythology from an ironic perspective. However, he does so to explore things in greater depth and to recapture the truth of the Wagnerian gesture and not out of gratuitous provocation. The fall of the gods and the decline of the order they embody are real, so is the emotion.

Musically the conductor and the orchestra performed perfectly, and vocally the cast represented a challenge. Peter Konwitschny raises his head with joy when applauded by an audience seduced in spite of being slightly shocked.

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