The Ring part 3: Siegfried - 3 minute preview from San Francsico Opera

Описание: The third Ring opera is, at heart, a coming-of-age story in which a fearless young hero discovers his destiny. Wotan's hope for recovery of the ring now rests with his grandson Siegfried, who must reject his adoptive father, forge a magical sword and slay a fearsome dragon to prove himself worthy of its mighty power—and the extraordinary woman who awaits him. London's Financial Times called soprano Nina Stemme "a Brünnhilde of tremendous subtlety and intensity, building her musical lines with calm intelligence." "A veteran of the country's major opera houses," tenor Jay Hunter Morris sings the role of Siegfried "easily and fervently" (San Francisco Chronicle).

Francesca Zambello's "eerily resonant" production (The New York Times), which evokes a natural world ravaged by greed and neglect, is "one of the best Siegfrieds I've ever experienced," raved the Washington Post. A "sensitive interpretation that, far from imposing an artificial concept on Wagner's work, delivered new insight into the characters."

The Story:

A generation has passed. Siegmund and Sieglinde's son Siegfried has been raised by Alberich's sly brother Mime. Mime hopes to gain the ring from the giant Fafner, now turned into a dragon, and sends Siegfried to slay him. Now the owner of the ring, Siegfried kills the treacherous Mime and sets out to find the mysterious sleeping woman described to him by a forest bird. As a test of Siegfried's courage, the Wanderer (Wotan) tries to bar the way. Siegfried breaks the god's powerful spear and braves the circle of fire to awaken Brünnhilde. The two fall ecstatically in love.