5/11/13 – Gotterdammerung – NOON
Metropolitan Opera
Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner
Libretto by Richard Wagner
Sung in German
Approximate running time: 5 hrs. 31 min., 2 intermissions.
Robert Lepage’s landmark production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen is back for three complete cycles in spring 2013, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The Ring‘s cataclysmic finale stars Deborah Voigt and Katarina Dalayman as Brünnhilde, opposite Jay Hunter Morris and Lars Cleveman as Siegfried. Hans-Peter König is Hagen and Fabio Luisi conducts.
Cast/Crew
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Brünnhilde: Deborah Voigt
Gutrune: Wendy Bryn Harmer
Waltraute: Karen Cargill
Siegfried: Lars Cleveman
Gunther: Iain Paterson
Alberich: Richard Paul Fink
Hagen: Hans-Peter König
Production: Robert Lepage
Associate Director: Neilson Vignola
Set Designer: Carl Fillion
Costume Designer: François St-Aubin
Lighting Designer: Etienne Boucher
Video Image Artist: Lionel Arnould
Photo credits: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera