Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Heras-Casado
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Heras-Casado
–The Ring of the Nibelung: selection from Richard Wagner's Tetralogy
Performers
Catherine Foster, soprano
Klaus Florian Vogt, tenor
Nicholas Brownlee, bass-baritone
Orquestra del Festival de Bayreuth
Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor
Katharina Wagner, Festival artistic direction
Program
Das Rheingold: Entrance of the gods to Valhalla
Die Walküre: “Ein Schwert verhieß mir der Vater”. Wotan's Farewell, “Leb wohl du kühnes herrliches Kind!”. The Ride of the Valkyries
Siegfried: The murmur of the forest “Ewig war ich...”. The death of Siegfried, “Brünnhilde, heilige Braut!”
Götterdämmerung: Dawn and Siegfried's journey on the Rhine. Funeral march. Final scene, “Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort…”