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classical music, opera, theatre

Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
  • Produced by Müpa Budapest
cancelled
  • BUDAPEST WAGNER DAYS
The performance has been cancelled.

We would like to inform the public that Müpa Budapest is currently closed to protect the health of both guests and artists, and is not allowing any visitors to the building.

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At the end of the final music drama making up the Ring cycle, even though the music is blasting with the destruction of the world, it also contains a message of hope: the end implies the possibility of a new beginning. This is because the final sounds come from the strings playing the broad lyrical notes of the transfigurative Redemption motif. There could hardly exist in our time a work of art that conveys a more important warning for humanity as it debates menacing natural phenomena and the possible fate of the earth than Götterdämmerung does. Perhaps there is still time for us to return the ring to the Rhinemaidens.

It was a telling artistic decision on Wagner's part to omit the central figure of the entire great tetralogy from its final part: Wotan, the conceptual instigator behind every event, is no longer present on stage, with news of his doings only reported indirectly by Waltraute. Or could it be that Wotan is not in fact the most important character, and this distinction should instead go to the disgraced Valkyrie Brünnhilde? In a moral sense, she certainly deserves the title. 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 is a living reminder of the injunction to '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. The wonderful heldentenor Corby Welch last sang Siegfried at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, to get great acclaim, and the Müpa Budapest audience will vividly remember Catherine Foster's Brünnhilde from the 2019 Budapest Wagner Days festival. After singing Hunding two days earlier, Albert Dohmen will now bring his dark-sounding vocal chords to portray Hagen, another hard-as-rock character. Appearing as Waltraute in Act 2 is a living legend of Wagnerian singing: Waltraud Meier.

Presented by: Müpa Budapest

Sections

  • Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Artistic director and conductor:

  • Ádám Fischer

Performers:

  • Siegfried
    Corby Welch
  • Alberich
    Péter Kálmán
  • Hagen
    Albert Dohmen
  • Brünnhilde
    Catherine Foster
  • Waltraute
    Waltraud Meier
  • First Norn
    Erika Gál

Featuring:

  • Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
  • Hungarian Radio Choir (choirmaster: Zoltán Pad)
  • Budapest Studio Choir (choirmaster: Kálmán Strausz)

Creators:

  • Christian Martin Fuchs †, Dr Christian Baier
  • Costumes and puppet design
    Corinna Crome
  • Lighting
    Máté Vajda
  • Choreography
    Gábor Vida
  • Assistant choreographer
    Dóra Asztalos
  • Revival director
    Etelka Polgár

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