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Songs amid ice and fire: Götterdämmerung provides a fine close to Opera Australia’s Ring Cycle

Stefan Vinke (Siegfried), Andrea Silvestrelli (Hagen)
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Angela Hogan (2nd Norn), Celeste Haworth (1st Norn), Olivia Cranwell (3rd Norn)
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Deborah Humble (Waltraute)
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Stefan Vinke (Siegfried), Andrea Silvestrelli (Hagen), Luke Gabbedy (Gunther)
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Lise Lindstrom (Brünnhilde)
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“Stefan Vinke... would bellow out a ringing top A or C, and all was right with the world”
Reviewed at QPAC: Lyric Theatre, Brisbane on 7 December 2023
Wagner, Götterdämmerung
Opera Australia
Philippe Auguin, Conductor
Chen Shi-Zheng, Director, Set Designer
Anita Yavich, Costume Designer
Matthew Marshall, Lighting Designer
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Opera Australia Chorus
Maruti Evans, Associate Set Designer
Lucy Birkinshaw, Associate Lighting Designer
Stefan Vinke, Siegfried
Lise Lindstrom, Brünnhilde
Maija Kovalevska, Gutrune
Luke Gabbedy, Gunther
Andrea Silvestrelli, Hagen
Olivia Cranwell, Third Norn
Jane Ede, Wellgunde
Lorina Gore, Woglinde
Dominica Matthews, Flosshilde
Angela Hogan, Second Norn
Deborah Humble, Waltraute
Celeste Haworth, First Norn
Warwick Fyfe, Alberich
Akasia Ruthy Inchaustegui, Choreography
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