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225329-31 bk Wagner 19/3/07 12:59 Page 36 DDD OPERA CLASSICS 8.225329-31 Siegfried 3 CDs WAGNER Der Kobold (The Goblin) Broberg • Mauel • Mitschke • Horn • Hoffmann • Föttinger • Meierhöfer Isherwood • Borst • Lukic • Bappert • Höchbauer • Kohler • Park • Hoferichter PPP Music Theatre Ensemble, Munich Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra • Frank Strobel Booklet photos from the pianopianissimo-musiktheater We also thank the production at the Stadttheater International Siegfried Fürth by Thomas Langer Wagner Society Director: Peter P. Pachl (www.siegfried-wagner.org) Set Design: Achim Bahr for its support. Costume Design: Gregor Sturm International Siegfried Wagner Society (ISWG e. V.) 8.225329-31 36 225329-31 bk Wagner 19/3/07 12:59 Page 2 Siegfried WAGNER (1869-1930) Der Kobold, Op. 3 (1903) (The Goblin) Opera in Three Acts Text and Music by Siegfried Wagner Verena . Rebecca Broberg Gertrud . Regina Mauel Ekhart . Andreas Mitschke Trutz / Satyros . Achim Hoffmann Fink / Heliodoros . Johannes Föttinger Kümmel / Faun . Philipp Meierhöfer Friedrich / Eros . Volker Horn Der Graf . Nicholas Isherwood Die Gräfin / Eukaleia . Martina Borst Jeannette . Ksenija Lukic Jean . Marco Bappert Knorz . Joachim Höchbauer Käthe . Heike Kohler Seelchen . Young Jae Park Galgenmännchen . Franziska Ulrich Ein Geck . Philipp Hoferichter Mädchen . Evdoxia Fotiou, Susanne Heinzmann, Heike Kohler Burschen . Johann Winzer, Marco Bappert, Joachim Höchbauer Hofdamen . Evdoxia Fotiou, Regina Mauel Höflinge . Philipp Hoferichter, Johann Winzer Kobolde . Kinderchor des Heinrich-Schliemann-Gymnasiums Fürth PPP Music Theatre Ensemble, Munich Chorus-master: Elisabeth Müller Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra Frank Strobel From the stage production directed by Peter P. Pachl for the Stadttheater Fürth Publisher: Musikverlag Max Brockhaus, Remagen 8.225329-31 235 8.225329-31 225329-31 bk Wagner 19/3/07 12:59 Page 34 Siegfried WAGNER (1869-1930) Der Kobold, Op. 3 (The Goblin) CD 1 71:57 1 Introduction 2:41 2 Act 1, Scene 1 5:43 3 Act 1, Scene 2 9:53 4 Act 1, Scene 3 2:33 5 Act 1, Scene 4 5:16 6 Act 1, Scene 5 10:16 7 Act 1, Scene 6 18:20 8 Act 1, Scene 7 11:47 9 Act 1, Scene 8 5:28 CD 2 71:03 1 Introduction 2:53 2 Act 2, Scene 1 4:54 3 Act 2, Scene 2 5:08 4 Act 2, Scene 3 17:12 5 Act 2, Scene 4 4:11 6 Act 2, Scene 5 11:23 7 Act 2, Scene 6 4:18 8 Act 2, Scene 7 12:59 9 Act 2, Scene 8 8:05 CD 3 52:27 1 Introduction 4:33 2 Act 3, Scene 1 19:49 3 Act 3, Scene 2 10:35 4 Act 3, Scene 3 17:30 8.225329-31 34 3 8.225329-31 225329-31 bk Wagner 19/3/07 12:59 Page 4 Siegfried Wagner (1869-1930) The Goblin The Opera Wahnfried in Bayreuth in 1874. After Richard Wagner’s death on 13th February, 1883, Cosima Siegfried Wagner’s Der Kobold, completed in 1903 and headed the third Bayreuth Festival (following those of first performed in Hamburg in 1904, was later referred 1876 and 1882) as had been intended. In 1884, to by the composer himself as his favourite work. Yet in Siegfried Wagner suffered a mysterious illness which spite of the comic implications of the title, the opera is a prevented him from going to school. His interest in very sombre work, in which Siegfried Wagner deals architecture became apparent quite early, as evidenced with the fate of the souls of aborted children or those by the many sketches he made during the family trips in killed right after birth. The recent birth of his own Italy. unwanted child was the trigger for the treatment of this King Ludwig II, Siegfried’s godfather, died in theme. At the end of April 1901 the composer reported June, 1886, under unexplained circumstances in the from Berlin: ‘In the next opera there are tears. I am Starnberg Lake. His grandfather, Franz Liszt, died a quite afraid of it’. month later on 31st July during the festival. Siegfried During the first year of composition Siegfried designed a chapel in the style of the Italian early Wagner staged his father’s Der fliegende Holländer in Renaissance for his mausoleum, but these plans were Bayreuth. This was his first Bayreuth production in never realised. which he realised his father’s original plan to play the Siegfried passed his school-leaving exam and work as a ballad, without intervals. Der Kobold has a university qualification in 1889 in Bayreuth, and began similarly ghostly atmosphere. Siegfried Wagner wrote his musical studies with Engelbert Humperdinck. In the libretto himself, as he had for his first opera, Der Frankfurt he fell in love with Clement Harris, a student Bärenhäuter, in 1898. Cosima Wagner, however, was at the Hoch Conservatory there. In 1892 he undertook a critical of the text, remarks to which her son gave little trip with him to East Asia for six months. During this attention. time he kept a detailed journal with drawings and watercolours, published privately by Winifred Wagner Peter P. Pachl in 1937, and resolved to become a musician. His début as a conductor took place in 1893 in the Margrave Siegfried Wagner – Biographical Notes Opera House in Bayreuth with excerpts from Der Freischütz and Rienzi. He continued his studies with Like his older sisters Isolde and Eva, Siegfried Wagner, Julius Kniese. In 1894 he finished his symphonic poem, the third child of Cosima von Bülow (née Liszt) and Sehnsucht. Inspired by Friedrich Schiller, it contains Richard Wagner, was born illegitimately on 6th June, several motifs which he uses again in later operas. He 1869 in Tribschen, near Lucerne. His mother asked her conducted its première on his 26th birthday in the husband Hans von Bülow a few days later for a divorce Queen’s Hall in London. on 15th June. The following year on 25th August, 1870, During the Festival in 1896 Siegfried conducted the Cosima and Richard married, after which their son was dress rehearsal and the fourth cycle of The Ring of the baptized with the name Siegfried Helferich Richard. Nibelung, performed for the first time in Bayreuth since The family, including Siegfried’s half-sisters 1876. He also collaborated on the stage direction. Der Daniela and Blandine von Bülow, moved into Bärenhäuter, his first opera, had its première in 1899 at 8.225329-31 433 8.225329-31 225329-31 bk Wagner 19/3/07 12:59 Page 32 the Royal National Theatre in Munich. The opera was interruption, on 22nd July, with a revival of the 1911 thereafter performed in other theatres, national and production of Meistersinger. Siegfried Wagner was international. 177 performances at approximately 35 appalled as the audience rose after Hans Sachs’s final theatres led it to become one of the most popular operas speech to sing the German anthem, and banned similar of the 1899/1900 season. Born on 9th June, 1901, actions in the following year. Walter Aign was the son of Marie Aign, the wife of the In 1926 Weimar witnessed a German Festival Bayreuth minister Karl Wilhelm Aign. He later claimed Week and a Siegfried Wagner Festival Week with to be the son of Siegfried Wagner and was employed at performances of his works. In 1927 appeared the first the Festival. volume of his grandmother Marie d’Agoult’s memoirs, Siegfried Wagner travelled a great deal in 1903, for which he wrote the preface. Once again occupying and finished composing Der Kobold in Florence. himself with the subject matter of a murdered child, he Cosima Wagner suffered a slight stroke at the end of the completed the libretto of his sixteenth opera, year and subsequently reduced her responsibilities of Wahnopfer, and half of the score. For his sixtieth heading the festival. Siegfried Wagner took over from birthday in 1929, he received from the Friends of her in 1908, and became quite active as stage director, Bayreuth a donation of 100,000 Reichsmark for his instituting the latest technical developments, receptive planned new staging of Tannhäuser, for which in spite to modern stylistic elements, contemporary concepts of many protests, he succeeded in engaging Arturo and influences. On the occasion of his father’s Toscanini as conductor. hundredth birthday, Bayreuth honoured Siegfried In February, 1930, Siegfried and Winifred travelled Wagner as a freeman on 22nd May, 1913. His sister to Bristol for a concert with an audience of 4,500, Isolde filed suit against her mother in order to be proceeding afterwards to Bournemouth. In Milan recognised as the daughter of Richard Wagner. The Siegfried was the musical and stage director of The unpleasant court proceedings of 1914 were to her Ring. Cosima died during their absence on 1st April, disadvantage and everyone’s shame. When the war and after the funeral ceremonies Siegfried continued his began four weeks later the festival was called off and concert activities. The Festival’s rehearsals began on the tickets refunded, leading to a deficit of 15th June; two days later during the rehearsal of Act II approximately 400,000 marks. of Götterdämmerung Siegfried Wagner suffered a heart The wedding of Siegfried Wagner and Winifred attack and was taken to hospital. He died on 4th August Marjorie Williams, 28 years his junior, was celebrated and, amid a large crowd of mourners, was buried two on 22nd September, 1915, in the hall at Wahnfried. days later in Bayreuth at the Stadtfriedhof. Following one another as quickly as Siegfried wrote his operas, were born their children: Wieland (1917), Achim Bahr Friedelind (1918), Wolfgang (1919) and Verena (1920). Source: International Siegfried Wagner Society, An American publisher induced Siegfried Wagner www.SIEGFRIED-WAGNER.org to write his memoirs, published in 1923.

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