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Ragnarök: the long twilight of the Stockholm Ring

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“Stemme's Brünnhilde prowls the stage like a tigress, her blazing eyes cowering all”
Reviewed at Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm on 29 May 2017
Wagner, Götterdämmerung
Marko Letonja, Conductor
Staffan Valdemar Holm, Director
Bente Lykke Møller, Costume Designer
Lars Cleveman, Siegfried
Nina Stemme, Brünnhilde
Ola Eliasson, Gunther
Sara Olsson, Gutrune
Falk Struckmann, Hagen
Johan Edholm, Alberich
Katarina Dalayman, Waltraute
Katarina Leoson, First Norn
Susann Végh, Second Norn, Wellgunde
Emma Vetter, Third Norn
Vivianne Holmberg, Woglinde
Johanna Rudström, Flosshilde
Royal Swedish Opera Chorus
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