Siegfried: Stig Andersen Gunther: Martin Gantner Hagen: Matti Salminen Alberich: Hartmut Welker Brünnhilde: Susan Bullock Gutrune: Eszter Wierdl Waltraute: Cornelia Kallisch 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 Arts 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. Cornelia Kallisch this year makes her debut at the Budapest Wagner Festival, singing in three productions: besides Waltraute, she will also perform Erda in both Rheingold and Siegfried. Born in Germany, after violin and vocal studies the mezzo-soprano turned to singing. She first sang oratorios and lieder and became a member of the Zurich Opera; since then she has largely concentrated on dramatic heroines such as Brangäne, Fricka and Waltraute from Wagner. One of her favourite roles is Judit from Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle which she has sung all over the world and also recorded with conductor Péter Eötvös leading to a Grammy nomination. Matti Salminen makes his return to the Budapest Wagner Festival. Last year, he enjoyed great success as Gurnemanz in Parsifal. In his twelve years at the Bayreuth Festival, he has performed nine different roles in over one hundred and fifty performances, but he has never sung Hagen there. He completed his studies in his native Finland at the Helsinki Sibelius Academy, before post-graduate work in Italy and Germany. He is now one of the busiest bass singers in the world. He was a member of the Cologne Opera House from 1972 to 1980, and in 1984 joined the Zurich Opera. He has twice contributed to Grammy Award winning recordings: in Boulez’s 1982 interpretation of the Ring and in 1991, the New York Metropolitan’s production of Götterdämmerung with James Levine just in the role of Hagen.
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