Siegfried / music drama in three acts by Richard Wagner.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationHalle, Germany : ArtHaus Musik, 2009.
Description1 online resource (252 minutes)
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?CLMV;2841097
Subjects

Other author/creatorRiley, Brooks, director.
Other author/creatorHal, Johnny van, performer.
Other author/creatorPorstein, Heike, 1970- performer.
Other author/creatorWeissmann, Nadine, 1974- performer.
Other author/creatorFoster, Catherine, 1975- performer.
Other author/creatorTsumaya, Hidekazu, 1964- performer.
Other author/creatorHoff, Mario, 1959- performer.
Other author/creatorMöwes, Tomas, 1951- performer.
Other author/creatorAurich, Frieder, performer.
Other author/creatorWagner, Richard, 1813-1883 librettist, composer.
Other author/creatorSt. Clair, Carl, conductor.
Included WorkWagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Ring des Nibelungen. Siegfried.
Other author/creatorStaatskapelle Weimar.
Other author/creatorDeutsches Nationaltheater (Weimar, Thuringia, Germany)
Other title Siegfried : Second Day to Der Ring des Nibelungen
Abstract Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung reflects the composer's autobiography as much as the political turmoil of his times. As work progressed, another figure grew to be as important as the hero Siegfried, the god Wotan, the mouthpiece for Wagner's ideas. "He's exactly like us: he is the sum of today's intellectual consciousness, whereas Siegfried is what we hope the human being of the future will be, but who cannot be fashioned by us, and who must make himself by means of our destruction!" Our own doom as the basis of a happier future? Second 'day' - and third part - of Richard Wagner's 'Ring', the musical saga that its author spent more than a quarter of a century composing. It follows the rise of a young hero, Siegfried, the illegitimate son of the twins whose story we were told in Die Walküre. On the one hand, there is learning about life, glorying in nature and in the emotions, as opposed to those of calculation and greed on the other. This episode shows how Wagner was intent on changing society, on showing that a different kind of man can exist, that the mercenary petit bourgeois world can be replaced by greater humanity and freedom.
General noteTitle from resource description page (viewed November 13, 2015).
Date/time/place of a event notePerformed Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar.
LanguageIn English and German.
Issued in other formOriginal cat. no.: 101357
Genre/formFilmed performances.

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Electronic Resources Access Content Online ✔ Available