- Approx. 5 hours 15 minutes with two breaks
- Interesting for people aged 14+
- In German language, with German surtitles, with English surtitles
Continuation of the family saga
Benedikt von Peter stages the third part of Richard Wagner's ‹Ring› tetralogy as an intense search for identity. Isolated in the forest, Siegfried has grown up. Unaware of his origins, the young hero succeeds in conquering the Ring and freeing Brünnhilde. But he has no idea that he has long been part of Wotan's perfidious plans. Wagner's «fairytale opera» combines spectacular dragon fights with ecstatic love duets and evokes mythical images of nature.
With the kind support of IG Ring
Digital book table
Together with the dramaturgy department, the Basel Kulturhaus Bider & Tanner has been curating the book table for our plays for many years. Now this selection of books, CDs, DVDs, catalogues and sheet music is available at any time in the online shop. It's worth browsing regularly.
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The Theater Basel has a first-class cast at its disposal.First and foremost is Rolf Romei, whose Siegfried makes us forget that it is one of the most feared roles in the repertoire. Textually clear, never forced and yet drawing on the full range, he gives his luminous tenor the required youthful note.
(T)he Basel Symphony Orchestra (plays) with beautiful-sounding brilliance in this almost incessant round dance of leitmotifs.
Trine Møller sings Brünnhilde, and once again the Dane does so with a soprano voice rich in overtones [...].
Benedikt von Peter goes all out in this gruesome fairy tale, goes one better and makes the puppets dance and creep.
(Jonathan) Nott has prepared the orchestra very well, I heard a score that is always in swing, elastic, springy and rhythmically [...] precise [...].
(Jonathan Nott's organic conducting is also convincing, with the sensitivity in the wide dynamic spectrum, with the illumination of individual voices and the atmospheric breath of the murmuring and shimmering passages that make up Wagner's musical dramaturgy and painting.
In Siegfried, Wagner's music unfolds an almost impressionistic sensitivity, shimmering in all the colors of human emotion and forest weaves. Star conductor Jonathan Nott leads the Basel Symphony Orchestra through these haunting sounds of color.
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