Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Prom 20 (part 1): Wagner - Gotterdammerung

Episode 1 of 3

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in Act 1 of the final opera of Wagner's epic Ring cycle, Gotterdammerung.

Wagner 200

Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim live at the Â鶹Éç Proms in the final opera of Wagner's epic Ring Cycle: Götterdämmerung - The Twilight of the Gods.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service

Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Prologue & Act 1 (concert performance, sung in German)

18.30 Interval

19.05 Act 2

20.10 Interval

20.45 Act 3

Brünnhilde .... Nina Stemme (soprano)
Siegfried .... Andreas Schager (tenor)
Hagen .... Mikhail Petrenko (bass)
Gunther .... Gerd Grochowski (bass-baritone)
Gutrune / Third Norn .... Anna Samuil (soprano)
Alberich .... Johannes Martin Kränzle (bass-baritone)
Waltraute / Second Norn .... Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano)
First Norn .... Margarita Nekrasova (contralto)
Woglinde .... Aga Mikolaj (soprano)
Wellgunde .... Maria Gortsevskaya (soprano)
Flosshilde .... Anna Lapkovskaja (mezzo-soprano)

Royal Opera Chorus
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

Tom Service presents the final leg of Daniel Barenboim's Ring Cycle with the Staatskapelle Berlin - the first ever complete cycle at the Â鶹Éç Proms. And it's not a happy ending: Götterdämmerung - The Twilight of the Gods - is the darkest of the four operas. The ecstatic love of Siegfried and Brünnhilde, celebrated at the end of the previous opera, is under threat from the plotting of the cunning Hagen. As the son of Alberich who created the all-powerful golden Ring, Hagen's single purpose is to regain the Ring at all costs. Soon Siegfried's fate is sealed: can Brünnhilde save the world?s.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 28 Jul 2013 16:30

Music Played

  • Richard Wagner

    Gotterdammerung [Part 4 of 'Der Ring des Nibelungen']

    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim Performer: Aga Mikolaj Performer: Anna Lapkovskaja Performer: Anna Samuil Performer: Gerd Grochowski Performer: Ian Storey Performer: Johannes-Martin Kranzle Performer: Margarita Nekrasova Performer: Maria Gortsevskaya Performer: Mikhail Petrenko Performer: Nina Stemme Performer: Waltraud Meier Performer: Berlin State Orchestra Performer: Royal Opera House Chorus

Broadcast

  • Sun 28 Jul 2013 16:30

The home of classical music and the Proms on the Â鶹Éç

Every Proms concert is broadcast live on Radio 3 - don't miss a single one.