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Die Nibelungen, creators of the world's most powerful weapons,  grapple with life in a post-Götterdämmerung society.

Immolated Triptych was created for the 2021 InterArts class at the New England Conservatory of Music, and it was inspired by the staggering number of lives lost to gun violence (mass shootings) during the Covid-19 Shutdown.

Immolated Triptych

Die Radiojournalistin Gabriela Kaegi begibt sich auf eine wundersame Reise ins Reich der Tiere und erforscht Wagners epochalen Opernzyklus ‹Der Ring des Nibelungen› anhand dessen Liebe zu Vierbeinern und Federvieh.

Kaegis Klaenge – Wagners Ring-Menagerie: Kröten, Lindwürmer und Papageien

Die Radiojournalistin Gabriela Kaegi taucht weiter ein in Richard Wagners Seifen-Oper. Dieses Mal im Trommelfell: Siegfried, wenn Helden Liebe suchen ...

Kaegis Klaenge – Siegfried, wenn Helden Liebe suchen ...

Musikalische Leitung – Jonathan Nott
Inszenierung – Benedikt von Peter
Co-Regie – Caterina Cianfarini
Sinfonieorchester Basel

Siegfried – Rolf Romei
Mime – Karl-Heinz Brandt
Der Wanderer – Nathan Berg
Alberich – Andrew Murphy
Fafner – Runi Brattaberg
Erda – Hanna Schwarz
Brünnhilde – Trine Møller
Waldvogel – Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir

Ausschnitte Presse

Heil Dir Sonne (Brünnhilde)

Heil Siegfried (Waldvogel)

Waldweben (Orchestral)

Notung (Siegfried)

Auf wolkigen Höhen (Wotan)

Zwangvolle Plage (Mime)

LA Opera's Richard Seaver Music Director, James Conlon, explores the first opera of Wagner's Ring cycle: Das Rheingold during LA Opera’s pre-performance lecture in June 2010. Maestro Conlon goes in depth on Das Rheingold's characters, plot line, and musical themes.

Listen to all four talks in preparation of LAO At Home's audio stream of Wagner's epic four-part Der Ring des Nibelungen, conducted by Music Director James Conlon. Commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the company's extraordinary first complete presentation in 2010, the Ring cycle will be featured in a marathon back-to-back audio stream of all four operas in one day, beginning at 8am PDT on July 25, 2020 (https://www.laopera.org/ring/)

Die Walküre (https://www.laopera.org/podcasts)
Siegfried (coming July 21)
Götterdämmerung (coming July 23)

James Conlon's Pre-Performance Talks on The Ring Cycle: Das Rheinhold (part one)

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