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BBC Proms: 2013 Season: Prom 20

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Prom 20 (part 3): Wagner - Gotterdammerung

Part 3 Part 3: Prom 20 (part 3): Wagner - Gotterdammerung

2013

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The Staatskapelle Berlin under Daniel Barenboim in Act 3 of Wagner's Gotterdammerung.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in Act 3 of the final opera of Wagner's epic Ring Cycle, Gotterdammerung.

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Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim live at the BBC Proms in the final opera of Wagner's epic Ring Cycle: Götterdämmerung - The Twilight of the Gods.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service


Wagner: Götterdämmerung


Prologue & Act 1 (concert performance, sung in German)

18.30 Interval

19.05 Act 2

20.10 Interval

20.45 Act 3



Brünnhilde .... Nina Stemme (soprano)
Siegfried .... Andreas Schager (tenor)
Hagen .... Mikhail Petrenko (bass)
Gunther .... Gerd Grochowski (bass-baritone)
Gutrune / Third Norn .... Anna Samuil (soprano)
Alberich .... Johannes Martin Kränzle (bass-baritone)
Waltraute / Second Norn .... Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano)
First Norn .... Margarita Nekrasova (contralto)
Woglinde .... Aga Mikolaj (soprano)
Wellgunde .... Maria Gortsevskaya (soprano)
Flosshilde .... Anna Lapkovskaja (mezzo-soprano)

Royal Opera Chorus
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)


Tom Service presents the final leg of Daniel Barenboim's Ring Cycle with the Staatskapelle Berlin - the first ever complete cycle at the BBC Proms. And it's not a happy ending: Götterdämmerung - The Twilight of the Gods - is the darkest of the four operas. The ecstatic love of Siegfried and Brünnhilde, celebrated at the end of the previous opera, is under threat from the plotting of the cunning Hagen. As the son of Alberich who created the all-powerful golden Ring, Hagen's single purpose is to regain the Ring at all costs. Soon Siegfried's fate is sealed: can Brünnhilde save the world?s.

BBC Proms: 2013

BBC Proms: 2013: Prom 20

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All broadcasts from the 119th season of the BBC Proms.

Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim perform the final opera of Wagner's Ring Cycle.

Tom Service presents from the Royal Albert Hall as Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim perform the final opera of Wagner's epic Ring Cycle.

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