Viennese cast of Siegfried

The Viennese court opera singer Amalie Materna was the first Brünnhilde in Bayreuth and Vienna. The picture shows her in Bayreuth in 1876, with the horse Grane

The Viennese premiere of Siegfried occupations list all contributors to the new productions of Richard Wagner's Siegfried , which since its first performance in Vienna in November 1878 of k. u. k Hofoper , today's State Opera, took place.

background

Traditionally, more Wagner performances take place in Vienna than in Berlin, Bayreuth, Dresden, Hamburg or Munich. This is due on the one hand to the interest of the Viennese public, on the other hand to the repertoire system of the State Opera, which makes it possible to keep all ten main works by the composer ready to play. The Ring des Nibelungen has been on the repertoire of the Vienna State Opera continuously since the late 1870s. Although the Vienna State Opera failed in 1862/63 when attempting the world premiere of Tristan und Isolde , all four works in the Ring quickly got their first performance in Vienna from 1877, long before the first performances in Berlin, London, Paris, St. Petersburg, New York or Milan .

Traditionally, there is considerable overlap between the Viennese and Bayreuth casts , as the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera had a number of singers who were essential for Richard Wagner's first performance of the Ring des Nibelungen . In the 20th and 21st centuries, the overlap can be explained by the fact that both the Bayreuth Festival and the Vienna State Opera endeavor to hire the best cast in the world. There is no direct competition as the Vienna State Opera is closed during the Bayreuth Festival season (in July and August).

The premiere cast

The fifth column shows the number of performances for each production. For the first performance in 1878 and for the new production in 1908, neither a director nor a director is specified. The Bechtolf production is still on the program of the State Opera. The specified number of performances describes the status of January 2017.

Siegfried	Brünnhilde	Wanderer Alberich Erda	Mime Fafner Waldvogel
First performance , November 9, 1878, conductor: Hans Richter , set design: Carlo Brioschi , Hermann Burghart , Johann Kautsky
Ferdinand Jäger	Amalie Materna-Friedrich	Emil Scaria Johann Nepomuk Beck Amalie Stahl	Viktor Schmitt August Egon Hablawetz Auguste Kraus	108
New production , September 26, 1908, conductor: Felix von Weingartner , set design: Alfred Roller , Anton Brioschi
Erik Schmedes	Anna Mildenburg	Friedrich Weidemann Richard von Helvoirt-Pél Mme. Charles Cahier	Hans Breuer Richard Mayr Gertrud Förstel	78
Lothar Wallerstein , May 21, 1931, conductor: Clemens Krauss , set design: Alfred Roller , Robert Kautsky
Josef Kalenberg	Mária Németh	Emil Schipper Hermann Wiedemann Enid Szántho	Erich Zimmermann Nikolaus Zec Luise Helletsgruber	49
Herbert von Karajan , December 23, 1957, conductor: Herbert von Karajan , set designer: Emil Preetorius
Wolfgang Windgassen	Birgit Nilsson	Hans Hotter Gustav Neidlinger Hilde Rössel-Majdan	Peter Klein Gottlob Frick Wilma Lipp	33
Adolf Dresen , March 14, 1993, conductor: Antonio Pappano , set design: Herbert Kapplmüller
Siegfried Jerusalem	Hildegard Behrens	Robert Hale Oskar Hillebrandt Jadwiga Rappé	Heinz Zednik Kurt Rydl Edith Lienbacher	30th
Sven-Eric Bechtolf , April 27, 2008, conductor: Franz Welser-Möst , set designer: Rolf Glittenberg , Marianne Glittenberg
Stephen Gould	Nina Stemme	Juha Uusitalo Tomasz Konieczny Anna Larsson	Herwig Pecoraro Ain Anger Ileana Tonca	20th

literature

• Siegfried's program booklet , Vienna State Opera, April 27, 2008

Web links

• Performance statistics of the Vienna State Opera , accessed on January 1, 2017