(c) Patrick Tourneboeuf Götterdämmerung: Paris Opera
Paris, Opéra Bastille — Main Auditorium
About the Event
In Götterdämmerung, Siegfried takes leave of Brünnhilde to travel the world and accomplish new feats. These will be his last: during his journey along the Rhine, he falls victim to a sinister plot hatched by Alberich and his son Hagen. The downfall of the gods is now inevitable…
Bringing the Ring cycle to a close with Götterdämmerung, its most metaphysical chapter, Richard Wagner unleashes music as blazing as the pyre on which Brünnhilde immolates herself. Emotion runs equally high, as in Siegfried’s Funeral March, one of the score’s most striking orchestral passages. Premiered in 1876 at the inaugural Bayreuth Festival, the work is presented here in a production by Calixto Bieito, thus concluding his vision of the Ring Cycle for the Paris Opera, begun in 2025.
Cast / Production
Creative team
Richard Wagner
Music and libretto
Calixto Bieito
Director
Rebecca Ringst
Set design
Ingo Krügler
Costume design
Michael Bauer
Lighting design
Sarah Derendinger
Video
Bettina Auer
Dramaturgy
Ching‐Lien Wu
Chorus master
Cast
Andreas Schager
Siegfried
Johannes Martin Kränzle
Gunther
Mika Kares
Hagen
Brian Mulligan
Alberich
Tamara Wilson
Brünnhilde
Sinead Campbell Wallace
Gutrune
Eve‐Maud Hubeaux
Waltraute
Aude Extrémo
Première Norne
Marie‐Andrée Bouchard‐Lesieur
Deuxième Norne
Sinead Campbell Wallace
Troisième Norne
Margarita Polonskaya
Woglinde
Isabel Signoret
Wellgunde
Katharina Magiera
Flosshilde
Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris
Address
Opéra Bastille, Place de la Bastille, Paris, France — Google Maps
