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Opera on 3

Music: Classical: Opera

Programme presenting rare and fascinating operatic performances

Programme presenting rare and fascinating performances and vividly communicating the immediacy of the live experience

Opera on 3: Wagner's Ring: Gotterdammerung

Opera on 3: Wagner's Ring: Gotterdammerung: Part 3: Act 3

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Wagner's Ring

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BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Wagner's Ring, Gotterdammerung, Act 3

Antonio Pappano conducts Act 3 of Wagner's Gotterdammerung at the Royal Opera House.

Act 3 of Götterdämmerung, the last work in Wagner's Ring cycle, performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. With Susan Bullock (Brunnhilde) and Stefan Vinke (Siegfried).

Wagner's Götterdämmerung, Act 3
Presented by Donald Macleod

The conclusion of Wagner's Ring cycle, first broadcast live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in October. The fate of the world is left to Brunnhilde - in the final conflagration she returns the ring of power to the forces of nature as she rides into the cleansing flames.

Brünnhilde.....Susan Bullock (Soprano)
Siegfried.....Stefan Vinke (Tenor)
Gunther.....Peter Coleman-Wright (Baritone)
Hagen.....John Tomlinson (Bass)
Gutrune.....Rachel Willis-Sorensen (Soprano)
Woglinde.....Nadine Livingston (Soprano)
Wellgunde.....Kai Ruutel (Mezzo-Soprano)
Flosshilde.....Harriet Williams (Mezzo-Soprano)
Royal Opera House Orchestra
Royal Opera House Chorus
Conductor, Antonio Pappano.

Opera on 3: Wagner's Ring

Gotterdammerung

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Relays of the four music dramas comprising Wagner's epic Ring Cycle

From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, relays of the four music dramas comprising Wagner's epic Ring Cycle

Wagner's Gotterdammerung, in a performance given at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Donald Macleod presents the last music drama of Wagner's Ring cycle, Gotterdammerung, in a performance given at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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