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Stefan Vinke’s smiling hero saves an otherwise sluggish Siegfried in Vienna

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“the orchestra excelled, with six tubas taking raspy prominence”
Reviewed at Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna on 28 May 2017
Wagner, Siegfried
Vienna State Opera
Peter Schneider, Conductor
Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Director
Rolf Glittenberg, Set Designer
Marianne Glittenberg, Costume Designer
Stefan Vinke, Siegfried
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Mime
Thomas Johannes Mayer, Der Wanderer
Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Alberich
Okka von der Damerau, Erda
Petra Lang, Brünnhilde
Concert Association Vienna State Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
fettFILM, Set Designer
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