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Richard Wagner. Siegfried (from Der Ring des Nibelungen). DVD. Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona / Bertrand de Billy. Recorded live in June 2004. With John Treleaven, Graham Clark, Falk Struckmann, Gunter von Kannen, Eric Halfvarson, Andrea Bonig, Deborah Polanski, and Cristina Obregon. Waldron, Heathfield, East Sussex: Opus Arte, 2005. OA 0912 D. $44.99.
Very few major opera houses or companies are able to manage a full production of The Ring of the Nibelungen by Wagner. It requires at least three days to perform all four operas (Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, and Gotterdammerung), nearly fifteen hours of music and thirty-four characters, as well as numerous staging and costume hands.
The opera...
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