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Wagner and Verfremdungseffekt: outstanding singing and subversive direction in Bayreuth's Siegfried

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Reviewed at Bayreuther Festspielhaus, Bayreuth on 25 August 2014
Wagner, Siegfried
Kirill Petrenko, Conductor
Frank Castorf, Director
Adriana Braga Peretzki, Costume Designer
Aleksandar Denić, Set Designer
Catherine Foster, Brünnhilde
Mirella Hagen, Waldvogel (the woodbird)
Nadine Weissmann, Erda
Burkhard Ulrich, Mime
Lance Ryan, Siegfried
Oleg Bryjak, Alberich
Sorin Coliban, Fafner
Wolfgang Koch, Der Wanderer
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