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¥¯Ñü4˘? ?Öä.¨® 'E Ä ¥; 660175-78 bk Siegfried US 11/16/06 11:04 AM Page 16 4 CDs Recorded at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, Germany, WAGNER on 1st October 2002 and 5th January 2003. General Director: Prof. Klaus Zehelein Siegfried Executive Producers: Dr Reinhard Ermen (SWR Radio), Dr Dietrich Mack (SWR TV) and Paul Smaczny (EuroArts) West • Göhrig • Schöne • Waag • Jun • Herrera • Ranada • Gasteen Producer: Thomas Angelkorte • Editor: Irmgard Bauer Engineers: Jürgen Buss and Karl-Heinz Runde Staatsoper Stuttgart • Staatsorchester Stuttgart This performance of Siegfried is the third part of Wagner’s Ring cycle recorded live during Stuttgart Opera’s 2002/2003 season. Lothar Zagrosek For the first time in the history of the Ring cycle each of the four operas was staged with separate producers and casts. A production of EuroArts Music International GmbH and Südwestrundfunk in co-operation with ARTE and SBS-TV Gefördert von der Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg 8.660175-78 16 660175-78 bk Siegfried US 11/16/06 11:04 AM Page 2 Stuttgart Staatsorchester Established in 1589 as the Court Orchestra of Württemberg, the Württemberg Stuttgart State Orchestra has a history Siegfried of over four hundred years. Over the generations there have been collaborations with musicians of distinction, among them Leonhard Lechner, the Frobergers, Niccolò Jommelli, Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, Konradin Kreutzer, The Second Day Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Carl Maria von Weber. Berlioz praised the orchestra, when he appeared with it as of conductor, and in the 1880s Stuttgart was one of the first to stage the complete Ring cycle, conducted by the then Der Ring des Nibelungen General Music Director Herman Zumpe, who had assisted Wagner at the first Bayreuth Festival. The tradition of (The Ring of the Nibelung) first performances has included Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos in 1912, conducted by the composer, in 1921 a one- by acter by Hindemith, and in recent times works by Orff, Penderecki, Glass, Zender, Riehm and Hölszky. In the twentieth century there was collaboration with Fritz Busch, Carl Leonhardt, Franz Konwitschny, Hans Swarowsky Richard Wagner and Herbert Albert, and in particular with Max von Schillings and Ferdinand Leitner, and in more recent years with (1813-1883) conductors such as Carlos Kleiber, Vaclav Neumann, Silvio Varviso, Janos Kulka, Dennis Russell Davies, Garcia Navarro and Gabriele Ferro as Music Directors and Conductor, and as guests, Georg Solti, Carlo Maria Giulini and Siegfried . Jon Fredric West, Tenor Riccardo Chailly. Lothar Zagrosek took over the helm of the orchestra in 1997, and has been responsible for a number of important and innovative performances. In 2002 the orchestra was named Orchestra of the Year by Mime . Heinz Göhrig, Tenor Opernwelt. The work of the orchestra has included recordings and DVDs, in addition to symphony concerts and The Wanderer . Wolfgang Schöne, Bass chamber music performed by members of the orchestra. Alberich . Björn Waag, Bass Fafner . Attila Jun, Bass Forest Bird . Gabriela Herrera, Soprano Erda . Helene Ranada, Contralto Lothar Zagrosek Brünnhilde . Lisa Gasteen, Soprano Lothar Zagrosek has been General Music Director of the Stuttgart Staatsoper since 1997. In August 2006 he became Staatsoper Stuttgart • Staatsorchester Stuttgart Principal Conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. He studied with Hans Swarowsky, István Kertész, Bruno Maderna and Herbert von Karajan, and was appointed Principal Conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Lothar Zagrosek Orchestra in 1982, followed by appointments as Musical Director of the Paris Grand Opéra, Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and General Music Director of Leipzig Opera. His career as a conductor has taken him, among other engagements, to Vienna and Hamburg State Operas, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Frankfurt Opera, the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Glyndebourne, the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna and Berlin Festival Weeks, the Munich Opera Festival and the London Promenade Concerts. Since 1995 he has been first Guest Conductor and Artistic Adviser to the German Youth Philharmonic and a regular guest with the orchestras of Bavarian Radio, West German Radio, NHK in Tokyo, the Orchestre Philharmonique of Radio France, and the RAI Orchestra in Turin. He was named by Opernwelt as Conductor of the Year in 1997 and 1999. 8.660175-78 2 15 8.660175-78 660175-78 bk Siegfried US 11/16/06 11:04 AM Page 14 Helene Ranada CD 1 54:17 3 Fühltest du nie im finstren Wald 5:00 (Mime, Siegfried) Helene Ranada is Swedish by birth. She studied singing in Malmö and Copenhagen, where she made her début as Act 1 4 Hättest du fleißig die Kunst gepflegt 3:20 Florence Pike in Britten’s Albert Herring. She appeared as Erda in Das Rheingold and as Brigitta in Die tote Stadt in (Mime, Siegfried) Stockholm, and in Oldenburg as Waltraute and the Second Norn in Götterdämmerung. In 1999 she was a finalist in 1 Vorspiel (Prelude) 3:51 5 Notung! Notung! Neidliches Schwert! 7:46 the Oslo Queen Sonja Competition, where she won the Edvard Grieg Prize. Further guest engagements have taken (Siegfried, Mime) her to the Scottish Opera in Glasgow and to the Edinburgh Festival as Erda. From 2000 to 2002 she was a member Scene 1 6 Hoho! Hoho! Hohei! Schmiede, mein Hammer, of the Vienna State Opera, with rôles including those of Annina, Erda, Flosshilde, the First Norn, Dryad in Ariadne ein hartes Schwert? 3:16 auf Naxos and Mary in The Flying Dutchman. Since 2002 she has been a member of the Stuttgart State Opera, where her rôles have included Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Magdalena in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 2 Zwangvolle Plage! Müh’ ohne Zweck! 3:52 (Siegfried, Mime) Schwertleite in Die Walküre and the Messenger in L’Orfeo, as well as the First Norn/Flosshilde in (Mime) 7 Den der Bruder schuf 3:00 Götterdämmerung and the First Maid in Elektra. 3 Hoiho! Hoiho! Hau ein! Hau ein! 4:16 (Mime, Siegfried) (Siegfried, Mime) 4 Als zullendes Kind zog ich dich auf 5:14 ACT II (Mime, Siegfried) 5 Es sangen die Vöglein so selig im Lenz 4:49 8 Prelude 5:32 Lisa Gasteen (Siegfried, Mime) 6 Einst lag wimmernd ein Weib 8:37 Scene 1 Lisa Gasteen studied in her native Brisbane and at the National Opera Studio in London. She made numerous (Mime, Siegfried) appearances with the Australian Opera and Victoria State Opera. In 1991 she won the Cardiff Singer of the World 9 In Wald und Nacht vor Neidhöhl’ competition. Her wide-ranging repertoire includes the rôles of Leonora in Fidelio, Senta, Isolde, Salome, Elektra, Scene 2 halt ich Wacht 2:40 Brünnhilde and Ariadne. She has appeared as a guest artiste in Prague, at the Berlin Deutsche Oper and State Opera, (Alberich) the Opéra de la Bastille in Paris, in Zurich and Strasbourg, at the Welsh National Opera, in Dallas, Melbourne, as 7 Heil dir, weiser Schmied! 4:26 0 Wer naht dort schimmernd im Schatten? 8:02 Aida at the New York Met, at the Melbourne Festival and at the Sydney Festival, as Isolde in London and as (Wanderer, Mime) (Alberich, Wanderer) Brünnhilde at the Meiningen Theatre. She has appeared as Isolde at Stuttgart. 8 Wie werd’ich den Lauernden los? 8:07 ! Mit Mime räng’ich allein um den Ring? 7:22 (Mime, Wanderer) (Alberich, Wanderer, Fafner) 9 Nun rede, weiser Zwerg 3:06 (Wanderer, Mime) CD 3 72:17 0 Nun, ehrlicher Zwerg 7:59 (Wanderer, Mime) Scene 2 CD 2 50:50 1 Wir sind zur Stelle! Bleib hier stehn! 7:14 (Mime, Siegfried) Scene 3 2 Daß der mein Vater nicht ist 9:41 (Siegfried) 1 Verfluchtes Licht! 1:45 3 Haha! Da hätte mein Lied mir was (Mime, Siegfried) Liebes erblasen 6:04 2 Bist du es, Kind? 3:09 (Siegfried, Fafner) (Mime, Siegfried) 8.660175-78 14 3 8.660175-78 660175-78 bk Siegfried US 11/16/06 11:04 AM Page 4 4 Wer bist du, kühner Knabe 4:49 CD 4 62:58 Attila Jun (Fafner, Siegfried) 5 Ist mir doch fast, als sprächen die Vöglein Scene 2 Attila Jun was born in 1973 in Seoul and qualified at Seoul National University under Philip Kang. He studied with zu mir 1:51 Hans Sotin in Cologne and was a prize-winner in various singing competitions. Guest engagements as Hunding took (Siegfried, Voice of the Forest Bird) 1 Dort seh’ich Siegfried nahn 3:59 him to Rome under Sinopoli, to Toulouse and to Wels, where he sang Fafner. Appearances followed as Procida in I (Wanderer, Siegfried) vespri siciliani in Schwerin, as the Nightwatchman in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Bayreuth, as Timur, the Grand Inquisitor and Oroveso in San Francisco, and as Daland in The Flying Dutchman and the Landgraf in Scene 3 2 Was lachst du mich aus? 4:15 Tannhäuser at La Scala, Milan. He has also appeared in Hamburg, Hanover, Cologne, Madrid, San Sebastián, (Siegfried, Wanderer) Barcelona and Seoul. From 1999 to 2003 he undertook regular guest engagements at Bayreuth. His rôles in Stuttgart 6 Wohin schleichst du eilig und schlau 5:07 3 Bleibst du mir stumm, stärrischer Wicht? 4:31 have included Sparafucile, the Hermit in Der Freischütz, the Grand Inquisitor, Ferrando in Il trovatore, Timur and (Alberich, Mime) (Siegfried, Wanderer) King Marke, with Fasolt, Hunding, and Fafner in Siegfried and Wagner in Doktor Faust. 7 Willkommen, Siegfried! 7:18 4 Orchesterzwischenspiel (Mime, Siegfried, Alberich) (Orchestral Interlude) 5:19 8 Neides Zoll zahlt Notung 3:05 (Siegfried) Scene 3 9 Heiß ward mir von der harten Last 3:27 (Siegfried) 5 Selige Öde auf sonniger Höh’! 4:01 Gabriela Herrera 0 Nun sing! Ich lausche dem Gesang 4:36 (Siegfried) Gabriela Herrera completed her music studies in 1992 at the Juilliard School in New York and attended master-courses (Siegfried, Voice of the Forest Bird) 6 Das ist kein Mann! 7:24 with Elly Ameling and Kurt Equiluz.
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