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Götterdämmerung marks end and new beginning Reisopera

by Henri Drost
22 September 201230 May 2022
5 min read
For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

It is the first mass scene in Wagner's Ring: Siegfried leads Brünnhilde to the Gibichungenburg and Hagen summons all his men. From the side stage there is literally a deafening blare of horns, but conductor Ed Spanjaard lets it play on. And rightly so: the orchestra has a spark. The whole stage is filled in an instant and the choir swells in strength, louder and louder, ever louder, until the ecstatic apotheosis:

Gross Glück und Heil lacht nun dem Rhein

While the choir of...

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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

by Henri Drost
26 September 20118 July 2016
4 min read
MUSIC, OPERA

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.