Fear in future past: Siegfried at Houston Grand Opera

By Sydney Boyd, 17 April 2016

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“Goerke's voice soars with gravity; unshakable and fiercely passionate, she is the ideal Brünnhilde”

Reviewed at Wortham Theater Center: Brown Theater, Houston on 16 April 2016

Wagner, Siegfried

Houston Grand Opera

Patrick Summers, Conductor

Carlus Padrissa, Director

Roland Olbeter, Set Designer

Chu Uroz, Costume Designer

Jay Hunter Morris, Siegfried

Iain Paterson, Der Wanderer

Christine Goerke, Brünnhilde

Rodell Rosel, Mime

Richard Paul Fink, Alberich

Meredith Arwady, Erda

Andrea Silvestrelli, Fafner

Mané Galoyan, Waldvogel (the woodbird)

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Sydney Boyd

Sydney Boyd is an arts writer, scholar, and violinist. She has been a music critic in Houston since 2012 and is the blog author of Girl at the Opera. She has a Ph.D. in English literature from Rice University, where she currently holds a post-doctoral Spatial Studies fellowship in the Humanities Research Center.