Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor Valery Gergiev’s interpretation of Wagner’sGötterdämmerung has been called “insightful and electrifying” (The New York Times) and “beautiful” (The Guardian). Gergiev leads one of the legendary Wagner orchestras, the Vienna Philharmonic, in dramatic selections from the final opera in theRing tetralogy. Wagner’s vivid orchestral depictions of the breaking dawn, Siegfried’s journey on the Rhine, his murder and devastating funeral march, and Brünnhilde’s noble and stirring immolation scene are dramatic climaxes of the opera. Like Wagner, Mussorgsky also painted a vivid picture of early morning in the atmospheric prelude to his epic opera Khovanshchina. The orchestra’s virtuosity is also on display in a new work titledMasaot / Clocks Without Hands by Olga Neuwirth and co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall.