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A mesmerising Siegfried from the Mariinsky in Birmingham

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Reviewed at Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham on 8 November 2014
Wagner, Siegfried
Mariinsky Opera
Valery Gergiev, Conductor
Mikhail Vekua, Siegfried
Olga Sergeyeva, Brünnhilde
Andrei Popov, Mime
Anastasia Kalagina, Waldvogel (the woodbird)
Vladimir Feliauer, Der Wanderer
Edem Umerov, Alberich
Mikhail Petrenko, Fafner
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
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