Hunding (opera character)
Hunding is an actor in Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre from the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen . The figure goes back to Siggeir , a mythological figure from the Nordic legends.
The figure in the action
Hunding is the husband of the once stolen Sieglinde . This speaks full of contempt that once "thieves gave him the wife", but it must be pointed out that the archaic legal ideas considered the robbery to be quite legitimate, so Hunding was not contemptible in the eyes of the world because of this fact.
In the plot, Hunding is Siegmund's natural opponent , not just because of the rivalry for Sieglinde. Siegmund grew up in dark forests in the east, Hunding reports that clans live in the west who testify to his honor. Siegmund lives and fights alone, Hunding sees himself integrated into an orderly social network. When Siegmund, in order to hide his true origin, speaks of himself as woe, he calls his father Wolfe, so that he can nickname himself Wölfing. Again the contrast between the two actors is documented - here the wild, untamed wolf son, there the domesticated dog .
Sieglinde, Wotan and thus Richard Wagner himself clearly sympathize with Siegmund. Hunding sinks dead to the ground at a wave of the hand Wotan - Wotan, on the other hand, had earlier expressed his aversion to him: "After Valhalla, he is no good for me."
The lot
Hunding is a serious bass, character bass or bass baritone . Hunding has only brief appearances in Die Walküre , namely: in Act 1, Scene 2, and Act 2, Scene 5
Performers
Famous interpreters of Hunding are z. B. Gottlob Frick , Josef Greindl , Karl Ridderbusch and Matti Salminen .
Bayreuth Festival
Source: Bayreuth Festival
Web links
- Opera text: Hunding in Die Walküre , 1st act, 2nd scene
- Opera text: Hunding in Die Walküre , 2nd act, 5th scene
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Golther: The legendary foundations of Richard Wagner's ring seal . Verlag der Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung, Paul Lehsten, Berlin 1902, p. 46 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Overview on www.bayreuther-festspiele.de Retrieved on August 3, 2013
- ^ The cast of the Bayreuth Festival 1876–1960; edited by Käte Neupert; Edition Musica Bayreuth, 1961, p. 96
- ↑ The documentation The Cast of the Bayreuth Festival 1877-1960 (ibid.) Only mentions Joseph Niering for the 1876 festival year