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Götterdämmerung marks end and new beginning Reisopera

Het is de eerste massascène in Wagners Ring: Siegfried voert Brünnhilde naar de Gibichungenburcht en Hagen roept al zijn mannen bijeen. Vanaf het zijtoneel klinkt letterlijk oorverdovend hoorngeschal, maar dirigent Ed Spanjaard laat doorspelen. En terecht: in het orkest slaat een vonk over. Het hele toneel is in een oogwenk gevuld en het koor zwelt in kracht aan, luider en luider, alsmaar luider, tot de extatische apotheose:

Gross Glück und Heil lacht nun dem Rhein
Terwijl het koor van links na...

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Siegfried at Reisopera: a sword is a sword, a spear a spear and a dragon an er... storage tank with claws

The dragon remains tricky. Truly terrifying you never get him, of course, but what looked like a cross between a storage tank and an underground tube was laughable even before kitchy claws emerged from the wall. No wonder young Siegfried had the forchten does not learn and stands there smiling.

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