FanFaire Celebrates Hildegard Behrens: The Brunnhilde of Our Time (in Siegfried)

BRÜNNHILDE...

... beloved Valkyrie, goddess - warrior of Norse mythology.

In SIEGFRIED, she awakens - no longer a goddess but a mere mortal - a woman of unconditional love.

Of Hildegard Behrens as Brünnhilde:

"...with her slender figure and tremendous voice - a wonderful Walküre." -Wiener Zeitung

"...brings fresh insight... long passages of luminously beautiful singing..." -The Times

"...simply stunning - an impetuous angel with a voice to match." Evening Mail, London

"... the legitimate heir to the greatest Wagnerians of the century." -La Nacion, Buenos Aires

Click HERE for Ms. BEHRENS' thoughts on BRÜNNHILDE.

Scenes from SIEGFRIED

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(Photo credits: ©Misako Uryu; ©Winnie Klotz-
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SIEGFRIED

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DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN (The Ring of the Nibelung)

RICHARD WAGNER's great tetralogy, his Gesamtkunstwerk (or total work of art): Das Rheingold (which tells about the gold of the Rhine, Wotan - the Lord of Valhalla, Alberich - the Nibelung and how he came to curse the Ring), Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung. It is a powerful allegory of the human condition, imbued by Wagner with a multitude of dramatic and musical symbolisms.

SIEGFRIED tells about the hero's carefree youth in the primeval forest where he was raised by a Nibelung, and his first encounter with woman: BRÜNNHILDE!

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HILDEGARD BEHRENS: she makes music worth seeing!

PROFILE     PORTRAITS     PERFORMANCES     DISCOGRAPHY     AWARDS     QUOTES
BRÜNNHILDE     ELEKTRA      SALOME      FIDELIO     ISOLDE     MARIE     SENTA
THE KOSTELNICKA      THE WOMAN 'R'       KUNDRY     DIE LUSTIGE WITWE

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