Götterdämmerung

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Götterdämmerung

Premiere on 27. June 2027

Composer Richard Wagner. Text by Richard Wagner.

Third day of the stage festival Der Ring des Nibelungen (1876)

recommended for ages 14 and up

In German. With surtitles in German and English. New Production.

Introductions (in German) take place one hour before the start of each performance (except on opening night) in the Capriccio-Saal. Seating is limited, duration approx. 20 minutes.

The premiere will be broadcast live on BR Klassik. Following the performance, the “Kritische Trio” will discuss the premiere live on BR Klassik. The discussion will be available to watch on Staatsoper.tv the following day.

>>> To the introductory matinee

Ring Package: This performance can only be ordered as a complete cycle.

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Right from the beginning of the fourth and last part of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, it is already clear that the gods’ decline is inevitable. It is the humans that now increasingly influence the course of events. Siegfried and Brünnhilde’s love affair does not bode well, as King Gunther covets the world’s most exceptional woman. As the innocent-guilty instrument of the power-hungry Hagen, Alberich’s son, Siegfried wins her for himself. A false oath seals Siegfried’s doom. Brünnhilde betrays how the radiant hero can be toppled. But has the old order been restored when Brünnhilde returns the Ring to the Rhine in the final scene? Wagner wrote the text for Götterdämmerung (originally entitled Siegfrieds Tod – “Siegfried’s Death”) as the first of the four Ring parts, so after the composition break that followed the Lohengrin world premiere, and which was dedicated to writing his most important art theoretical texts. Wagner composed the piece as the last of the cycle, which resulted in a style that at first glance appears almost traditional, with several ensembles and even choirs – unique in the almost sixteen-hour mammoth work. In the superior treatment of the singing voices, the exceedingly artful motif technique and the finesse of the timbres, Götterdämmerung is indeed a solitaire gemstone in the opera universe.

With Götterdämmerung Tobias Kratzer now adds the keystone to his Ring interpretation. Even if the two antipodal characters Wotan and Alberich no longer appear (Wotan) or only appear marginally (Alberich) in this piece, the clash of two ways of life, suffering from immortality on the one hand, and mortality perceived as unacceptable on the other, comes to a temporary end here. Kratzer is also creating this last part of the gigantic Ring tetralogy together with his team. Along with Matthias Piro (assistant director) and Rainer Sellmaier (stage and costume), it also includes the video artists Manuel Braun, Jonas Dahl and Janic Bebic, and the light designer Michael Bauer. In his Ring interpretation, Tobias Kratzer hones his attention on neglected aspects of the more recently published material, such as the re-emphasis of the Feuerbach body of thought, for example, and fills narrative gaps, which affords the events surrounding the theft and recovery of the Ring an unusual density and stringency.

Tobias Kratzer, Artistic Director at the Hamburg State Opera since the 2025/2026 season, is considered one of the most important Wagner-exegetes since his Tannhäuser at the Bayreuth Festival – and not least of all since Das Rheingold at the Bayerische Staatsoper. General Music Director Vladimir Jurowski, who also conducted with the last part of the Ring, completes the management team.

Cast

Conductor
Vladimir Jurowski
Director
Tobias Kratzer
Stage Designer
Rainer Sellmaier
Lighting
Michael Bauer
Video
Manuel BraunJonas DahlJanic Bebi
Chorus
Christoph Heil
Dramaturge
Bettina BartzOlaf Roth

Siegfried
Benjamin Bruns
Gunther
Alexander Grassauer
Hagen
Sam Carl
Alberich
Georg Nigl
Brünnhilde
Miina-Liisa Värelä
Gutrune
Magdalena Hinterdobler
Waltraute
Claudia Mahnke
Woglinde
Sarah Brady
Wellgunde
Verity Wingate
Floßhilde
Yajie Zhang
1. Norn
Noa Beinart
2. Norn
Szilvia Vörös

Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper

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