Siegfried in Concert

Australian opera goers and curious new audience members have a final chance to preview Melbourne Opera’s Ring via a special Sunday performance of Siegfried in Concert at the Melbourne Recital Centre, on 25 September. The concert features the 90-piece Melbourne Opera Orchestra, and directly follows Wagner specialist conductor Anthony Negus’ highly successful productions of Die Walküre with the English National Opera at London’s famed Colosseum, and at his famous Longborough Festival Opera.

Siegfried follows a quest for identity, culminating in the third act; “the mysterious opening over a long deep timpani roll and Mime's brooding bassoon thirds leads into a reliving of the great build up in Rheingold scene four, where the gold is brought up to Wotan and Loge by the Nibelungs,” says Negus.

A superb Australian cast has been assembled for Siegfried in Concert, with Warwick Fyfe as Wotan, Lee Abrahmsen as Brunnhilde, Simon Meadows as Alberich, Deborah Humble as Erda, Steven Gallop as Fafner, Bradley Daley as Siegfried, Rebecca Rashleigh as Woodbird and Robert Macfarlane as Mime. Siegfried is the third opera in Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle, one of the biggest productions in all the performing arts and the greatest challenge for any opera company.

Tickets on sale now via Melbourne Recital Centre
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