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Nina Stemme’s glorious immolation crowns a stunning Vienna Götterdämmerung

By Simon Rees, 23 June 2014
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Reviewed at Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna on 8 June 2014
Programme
Wagner, Götterdämmerung
Performers
Vienna State Opera
Jeffrey Tate, Conductor
Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Director
Marianne Glittenberg, Costume Designer
Rolf Glittenberg, Set Designer
Nina Stemme, Brünnhilde
Stephen Gould, Siegfried
Attila Jun, Hagen
Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Alberich
Markus Eiche, Gunther
Caroline Wenborne, Gutrune
Zoryana Kushpler, First Norn
Stephanie Houtzeel, Second Norn
Ildikó Raimondi, Third Norn
Simona Ivan, Woglinde
Ulrike Helzel, Wellgunde
Alisa Kolosova, Flosshilde
Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
Concert Association Vienna State Opera Chorus
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Simon Rees
Simon Rees
Simon Rees writes programme articles and surtitles for most British opera companies, and reviews for Opera, Opera Now, Musical Opinion, Early Music Today and a wide range of other publications. A novelist, poet and librettist, from 1989 to 2012 he was dramaturg at Welsh National Opera. He lives in Cardiff.