Siegfried: Christian Franz Mime: Michael Roider Wanderer (Wotan): Alan Titus Alberich: Hartmut Welker Fafner: Walter Fink Erda: Cornelia Kallisch Brünnhilde: Susan Bullock Voice of the Forest Bird: Gabi Gál 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. Several singers in this performance of Siegfried are making their debuts at the “Wagner in Budapest” Opera Festival. From among them the interpreters of Wotan and Mime will reprise these roles also in Rheingold. Alan Titus was born in New York and graduated from the Julliard School of Music. He made his debut in Europe in Amsterdam in 1974, and debuted at the New York Met in 1976. Since then he has sung on all the world’s major operatic stages. He first performed Wotan at Bayreuth in 2000 with conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli. He has worked with such leading conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Sergiu Celibidache, Christoph von Dohnányi, James Levine and Lorin Maazel. Opernwelt magazine named him “Singer of the Year” in 1997. Michael Roider was born in Salzburg and studied violin and singing at the Mozarteum. In 1995 he joined the Vienna Staatsoper as a soloist. Previously he had achieved some impressive results at a number of singing competitions, among them the Salzburg International Mozart Competition and the Wiener Musikverein Schubert–Wolf Lieder Competition. He also performed in Sándor Végh’s Camerata Academica and the Pro Arte String Quartet. He has retained his musical versatility on the musical stage as well, being equally at home in operetta (Lehár and Johann Strauß) as he is in the role of Herod in Richard Strauss’s Salome which he has performed to tremendous acclaim in Vienna and also Graz.
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