Siegmund: Stig Andersen Hunding: Walter Fink Wotan: Juha Uusitalo Sieglinde: Evelyn Herlitzius Brünnhilde: Susan Bullock Fricka: Judit Németh Director, stage designer: Hartmut Schörghofer Choreographer: Teresa Rotemberg Costumes and puppets: Corinna Crome Light designer: Andreas Grüter Dramaturg: Christian Martin Fuchs Video: Torge Møller, Momme Hinrichs – fettFilm MR Symphonics Assistant conductor: László Kovács Artistic director and conductor: Adam Fischer The Palace of Ar...ts and Hungarian Radio are jointly organising the “Wagner in Budapest” Opera Festival for the third time. Following the hugely successful concert hall staging of Parsifal in 2006, and then the first two works of the Ring in 2007 in fully staged versions, this year presents all four operas of the Ring at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall – and perhaps uniquely, they will be heard also on four consecutive days. Adam Fischer made his Bayreuth Festival debut with the Ring in 2001 and was named “Conductor of the Year” by the German periodical Opernwelt. He returned to Bayreuth for three consecutive seasons as the musical director of the perhaps greatest cycle in music, and in 2006 and 2007 conducted Parsifal on the “Green Hill”. In 2007 he received the highly prestigious Eichala chalice which the city of Bayreuth donates to artists who have enjoyed extended periods of success at the Festival. Hartmut Schörghofer learned set design in his native city of Salzburg at the Mozarteum University and he has become internationally renowned as a set designer. His career as a director and his collaboration with Adam Fischer began at the Eisenstadt International Haydn Festival. These days, he is primarily occupied with opera direction, and his joint role as a set designer allows him to approach operas from an unusual and fruitful angle. He enjoyed great success with both critics and audiences at last year's “Wagner in Budapest” Opera Festival. Die Walküre was already a great success in 2007 and in 2008 it will feature some new guest singers. German soprano Evelyn Herlitzius works at the Dresden Semperoper primarily in operas by Wagner and Richard Strauss but has also sung Leonora in Fidelio, a role in which she debuted at the Vienna Staatsoper with conductor Adam Fischer with whom she worked several times in Bayreuth. This year in Budapest, she is to perform Sieglinde and also Brünnhilde from Siegfried. Susan Bullock is one of the leading Wagner sopranos of Great Britain. She has performed Brünnhilde in Tokyo, Perth and Venice, to name just a few, and this year, will also appear in this role in Siegfried and Götterdämmerung at the “Wagner in Budapest” Opera Festival. Stig Andersen who is also performing Siegfried in Götterdämmerung is a member of the Royal Danish Opera. He has been invited to perform Siegmund in ten world cities, including Turin, Berlin, Munich, Dresden and Chicago. The Finn Juha Uusitalo first attracted international attention with his interpretation of The Wanderer in Siegfried at the 1999 Tirol Festival. Since then he has appeared in other Wagner operas, at the Bavarian State Opera, La Scala Milan and the Vienna Staatsoper. After last year's success, Walter Fink makes his return to the Festival as Hunding, and also as Fafner in Rheingold and Siegfried. He has been a member of the Vienna Staatsoper since 1991 where he has performed over seventy roles in 650 performances. Besides the heroes of Mozart, Weber and Ri
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