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Siegfried at Nationaltheater Mannheim

Dates: (6/5/2016 - 6/26/2016 )

Theatre:

Nationaltheater Mannheim


Mozartstr. 9
Mannheim,Baden-Württemberg 68161

Phone: 0621 1680 150

Running Time: 5 hours and 30 minutes, including two intervals (40 minutes; 30 minutes) after 1 hour and 20 minutes and after 3 hours and 25 minutes.

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Siegmund and Sieglinde's son Siegfried is raised by Alberich's brother Mime. He tells Siegfried that his mother had died when he was born. Mime hopes that Siegfried Fafner is kill the guards in dragon form the Nibelungs treasure, the cloak of invisibility and the ring, and thus gives him the power of the ring. He can not do it, however, to forge a new weapon for Siegfried from the pieces of Siegmund's sword Excalibur. Siegfried himself succeeds because it does not attempt to weld the old parts, but it melts and a new sword pours. He slays the dragon and Mime who is seeking to take his life, and destroyed Wotan's spear. As a "fearless hero", independently, violent and naive at the same time, he awakened the sleeping Brünnhilde and learns to love the fear.

Wagner had conceived the third part of his Nibelungen tetralogy as "heroic comedy" about the young Siegfried and Heroes opera Siegfried's death preceded him (the later Götterdämmerung). The composition of Siegfried, however, draws a historical genesis and musical turning point, which concerns the entire cycle. It was 1857 to 1864 interrupted for seven years, and in addition to the biographical change the composer from exiled Revolutionärzum favorite of the Bavarian King her is inscribed the emergence of two other works: Wagner composed during this interruption Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, whose musical developments also in the further composition of the tetralogy were incorporated.

Cast and Creative team for Siegfried at Nationaltheater Mannheim

Conducted by Dan Ettinger
Staging / Stage / Costume Design / lighting design: Achim Freyer
Dramaturgy: Tilman Hecker
Employees Director: Sebastian Bauer / Tilman Hecker
Employees Stage / Costumes: Petra Weikert
Light: Sebastian Alphons (a G..)

Brünnhilde: Heike Wessels
Erda: Edna Prochnik
Waldvogel: Vera-Lotte Böcker
Mime: Uwe Eikötter
Alberich: Karsten Mewes / Ohne Namen
Fafner: Sung Ha
Wanderer: Thomas Jesatko

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