The world's best way to find live classical music

About Götterdämmerung

Buy CD from Naxos Direct
See 26 performances with Götterdämmerung

Read our reviews

Date and venueTitle
2-May-2013
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House
Götterdämmerung at the Met
Image credit: Iain Paterson as Gunther and Hans-Peter König as Hagen © Marty Sohl/Metropolitan OperaThe word Götterdämmerung contextually translated becomes “twilight of the gods”, and Thursday night’s story was indeed full of endings: the conclusion of the saga of the ring and the end of several lives, human and god alike.
Read full review...
24-Oct-2012
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
The cycle concludes: Götterdämmerung at the Royal Opera
Image credit: Karen Cargill, Maria Radner, Elisabeth Meister as the Three Norns © ROH 2012 / Clive BardaMonumental in scale and scope, Götterdämmerung is a work to which it is hard to be indifferent. For many, the idea of an evening of fantasy opera lasting nearly seven hours is unimaginable, so uncongenial is the subject material and so great the attention span demanded. For Wagner fans - and Ring fans in particular - it's a riveting theatrical and musical experience, the zenith of opera as an art form. Last night at Covent Garden was my first live Götterdämmerung, spent in the company of around three thousand of those fans.
Read full review...

bachtracklogo

Any comments about the site? Send us a message using contact us.
To list events on this site (free of charge) or to learn about advertising with us, please click here.
If you like the site and have a relevant website of your own, we'd love you to link to us.