Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2-DVD) – Kostadin Andreev, Yordanka Derilova
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2-DVD) – Kostadin Andreev, Yordanka Derilova
Composer: Richard Wagner
Artists: Kostadin Andreev, Atanas Mladenov, Biser Georgiev, Petar Buchkov, Yordanka Derilova, Tsvetana Bandalovska, Petya Tsoneva, Dimitrinka Raycheva, Flora Tarpomanova, Tsveta Sarambelieva, Milena Gyurova, Silvia Teneva, Orchestra and Chorus of the Sofia Opera and Ballet
Conductor: Erich Wächter
Director: Plamen Kartaloff
Video Format: NTSC 16:9
Sound Format: Dolby Digital 5.1 / PCM 2.0
Language: German
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean
Region: All Regions
Number of Discs: 2
Label: Dynamic
Release Date: May 20, 2022
Run Time: 272 minutes
Wagner’s tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen concludes with Götterdämmerung. The composer’s original draft, in which the gods are redeemed by the hero Siegfried’s sacrifice, had fundamentally changed by 1874. Now in this “cosmic catastrophe” Brünnhilde rides into Siegfried’s funeral pyre, the Rhine overflows, and Valhalla perishes – and the gods with it.
Götterdämmerung is the longest and most complex of the four music dramas, and its orchestration is also the most colorful and sophisticated. Siegfried’s Rhine Journey and Funeral March and Brünnhilde’s immolation scene are some of Wagner’s most potent theatrical moments and bring this drama to a shattering conclusion.
History
Götterdämmerung
Götterdämmerung composed between 1869-1874, is Richard Wagner’s grand finale of the Ring Cycle. The four operas in the series include Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), Siegfried and Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods).
A culmination of the dramatic and musical ideas set forth in the previous three works of the Ring is also a complete and monumental theatrical journey of its own with the saga’s complex ideas finding their full expression.
This epic drama ends in acts of betrayal, murder, vengeance and finally, the destruction of the world told in a complex plot.
Götterdämmerung presents a unique challenge for the lead tenor and soprano, performing a cathartic 15-minute narrative by Brünnhilde that is among the longest and most powerful unbroken vocal solos in the operatic repertory.
The Met’s production of Götterdämmerung in its 2018–19 season featured minimal otherworldly landscapes with digital imagery to achieve a modern interpretation of the composer’s masterpiece.
It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on August 17,1876 as part of the first complete performance of the Ring Cycle.
The Met’s landmark production, directed by Robert Lepage, premiered over the course of the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons. The DVD release of its Live in HD presentation won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording.
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