The Met in HD: Götterdämmerung, 2012

By Gavin Dixon, 01 December 2013

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Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City on 11 February 2012

Wagner, Götterdämmerung

Metropolitan Opera

Fabio Luisi, Conductor

Robert Lepage, Director

Deborah Voigt, Brünnhilde

Wendy Bryn Harmer, Gutrune

Heidi Melton, Third Norn

Jennifer Johnson Cano, Wellgunde

Erin Morley, Woglinde

Tamara Mumford, Flosshilde

Elizabeth Bishop, Second Norn

Waltraud Meier, Waltraute

Maria Radner, First Norn

Jay Hunter Morris, Siegfried

Eric Owens, Alberich

Iain Paterson, Gunther

Hans-Peter König, Hagen

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Gavin Dixon

Gavin Dixon is a writer, journalist and editor specialising in classical music. He writes for publications such as Gramophone, Classical Music and BBC Music Magazine. Gavin has a PhD on the symphonies of Alfred Schnittke and is a member of the editorial team for the “Alfred Schnittke Collected Works” edition. His website is here.