Part III of the Ring Cycle

Edmonton Opera brings you the third instalment of Wagner's epic Ring Cycle, returning to the world world of tempestuous Gods and warring monsters a generation on from Die Walkure (The Valkyrie). Center stage in this chapter is the young hero Siegfried,who, tasked with horrors unknown, has the misfortune to fall heavily in love right in the middle of them. Rodula Gaitanou directs and Simon Rivard conducts this coming-of-age tale to end all coming-of-age tales, in what is one of the most monumental works of opera ever created.

What Is The Story?

Concerning the son of doomed lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde, Siegfried is the tale of a child raised with no fear, to be tool to conniving foster father Mime, brother of the Ring Cycle's original ring-bearer Alberich. Mime thirsts for the power of the unholy band, and trains the unwitting Siegfried to defeat the giant Fafner, who now holds the ring and has transformed into a fearsome dragon.

Surely a suicide mission, Siegfried re-forges his father's legendary sword and sets out to slay the beast, while discovering the root of fear when he encounters the beautiful Brunnhilde trapped within a ring of flames, and loses his heart forever...