The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, featured on this recording, is recognized as Asia's foremost classical orchestra and presents over 150 concerts annually.
Composition History
The final opera, Götterdämmerung, was initially titled Siegfrieds Tod (Siegfried's Death) in Wagner's first libretto sketches from 1848.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The structure and underlying theme of the curse in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen owe a strong debt to Aeschylus and Greek tragedy.
Compositional Technique
Leading motifs associated with characters, events, and ideas recur and are interwoven throughout Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen to unify the entire conception.
Composition History
Richard Wagner's tetralogy, Der Ring des Nibelungen, was first performed as a whole in August 1876 at the new Festspielhaus in Bayreuth.
Performer Biography
Jaap van Zweden, the conductor of this recording, has been the music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra since 2012 and became the music director of the New York Philharmonic in the 2018-19 season.
Performer Biography
Daniel Brenna, who sings Siegfried, is considered one of today's most convincing Siegfrieds and made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2015.
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