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DIE WALKÜRE ACT 1 IN CONCERT

25 AUGUST 2018 Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall

CONCERT PROGRAM Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis conductor Eva-Maria Westbroek soprano (Sieglinde) Frank Van Aken tenor (Siegmund) Daniel Sumegi bass (Hunding)

Wagner Idyll INTERVAL Die Walküre Act 1

Pre-concert talk Join us for a pre-concert conversation with Monash University music expert, Andrys Onsman, inside Hamer Hall from 6.15pm.

Running time: 1 hour 50 minutes, including a 20-minute interval. This concert features surtitles.

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2 MELBOURNE SYMPHONY SIR ANDREW DAVIS ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR

Established in 1906, the Melbourne Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is an Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew arts leader and Australia’s oldest Davis is also Music Director and professional orchestra. Chief Principal Conductor of the Lyric Opera Conductor Sir Andrew Davis has of Chicago. He is Conductor Laureate been at the helm of MSO since 2013. of both the BBC Symphony Orchestra Engaging more than 4 million people and the Toronto Symphony, where he each year, the MSO reaches diverse has also been named interim Artistic audiences through live performances, Director until 2020. recordings, TV and radio broadcasts In a career spanning more than and live streaming. Its international 40 years he has conducted virtually audiences include China, where MSO all the world’s major orchestras has performed in 2012, 2016 and and opera companies, and at the most recently in May 2018, Europe major festivals. Recent highlights (2014) and Indonesia, where in 2017 have included Die Walküre in a new it performed at the UNESCO World production at Chicago Lyric. Heritage Site, Prambanan Temple. Sir Andrew’s many CDs include The MSO performs a variety of Messiah nominated for a 2018 concerts ranging from symphonic Grammy, Bliss’ The Beatitudes, performances at its home, Hamer Hall and a recording with the Bergen at Arts Centre Melbourne, to its annual Philharmonic of Vaughan Williams’ free concerts at Melbourne’s largest Job/Symphony No.9 nominated for outdoor venue, the Sidney Myer Music a 2018 BBC Music Magazine Award. Bowl. The MSO also delivers innovative With the MSO he has just released and engaging programs and digital a third recording in the ongoing tools to audiences of all ages through Richard Strauss series, featuring the its Education and Outreach initiatives. Alpine Symphony and Till Eulenspiegel.

3 EVA-MARIA WESTBROEK FRANK VAN AKEN SOPRANO TENOR

Eva-Maria Westbroek has appeared Dutch singer Frank van Aken made at opera houses such as , the his professional debut as Macduff Opéra National de Paris, Vienna State in Macbeth at the Nederlandse Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and La Reisopera, followed by his debut in Scala in Milan, concert halls such as Rome as Cavaradossi in Tosca. His the Concertgebouw and Royal Albert Italian repertoire also includes Otello Hall, and at festivals such as Aix-en- and he has appeared in by Provence, France. Her signature roles Shostakovich and Prokofiev. Among include Sieglinde in Die Walküre, the great Wagner roles, he has Maddalena in Andrea Chénier and the performed in Frankfurt and title roles in Jenůfa, Manon Lescaut, Turin, and Siegmund in Die Walküre Katya Kabanova, and Riccardo at La Scala and the Met. Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini. Frank van Aken has also appeared at Recent appearances have included major houses such as Bayreuth, Teatro Giorgetta in Il tabarro at the Bavarian Regio and Barcelona’s Gran Teatro del State Opera, Munich, and Katerina Liceu, and worked with conductors Ismailova (a signature role) in Lady including Petrenko, Barenboim and Macbeth of Mtsensk at Thielemann. House, Covent Garden conducted by Recent appearances include the Antonio Pappano. Recordings include title roles in Tannhäuser and Parsifal the Metropolitan Opera’s Walküre and at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, premiere release of Mark-Anthony and an Opera Gala (with Eva-Maria Turnage’s Anna Nicole. Westbroek) at Scheveningen’s Festival Classique.

4 DANIEL SUMEGI BASS

Daniel Sumegi has carved out an impressive international career with over one hundred roles in his repertoire, having performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden and the Paris Opera, as well as major opera companies across the United States, Europe, Asia, South America and Australia. Recent appearances have included the world premiere of Manchurian Candidate (Minnesota Opera), The Pearl Fishers (OA Sydney), Eugene Onegin (OA Melbourne), (Melbourne, Seattle, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles), Billy Budd (Los Angeles), Salome (Washington, Hong Kong) and Götterdämmerung (Strasbourg and Tokyo). Daniel Sumegi appears on CD in Seattle Opera’s acclaimed Ring cycle, and on DVD in Opera Australia’s Don Giovanni, and the historic condensed Ring cycle from Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires.

5 PROGRAM NOTES that of Brünnhilde’s sleep. There is a second theme, not from the opera, based on an old German lullaby, and later the wind instruments present (1813-1883) the theme associated with the words ‘Siegfried, Treasure of the World’, from the opera’s love duet. We hear the horn The Siegfried Idyll reveals a touchingly melody associated with the young gentle and domestic side of a composer Siegfried as hero, and the theme of who often displayed the opposite. the woodbird who leads Siegfried to Wagner’s full title for the piece was Brünnhilde’s fire-surrounded rock. Idyll, with Fidi’s Birdsong and Although it began as private chamber Orange Sunrise, as a Symphonic Birthday music, the Siegfried Idyll is really Greeting from Richard to Cosima. an early example of the symphonic Tribschen is the villa near the Swiss town poem, a genre invented by Liszt of Lucerne where Wagner was living with and developed by Richard Strauss. his wife, Cosima, whom he had recently Wagner here depends less on an married when her divorce from Hans von extraneous program than either of Bülow was finalised. She already had these composers. The first theme, two daughters by Wagner, and in 1869 in fact, comes from a planned string a son was born, Siegfried, known in the quartet Richard had promised to Cosima family circle as Fidi. On Christmas Day in the days of their first love. Only later 1870, which was also Cosima’s birthday, was it incorporated into the opera she awoke to the strains of music. As Siegfried. Cosima recalled Richard the music died away, Richard came into telling her that ‘all that he had set out the room and offered Cosima the score to do was to work the theme which of the ‘symphonic birthday poem’. The had come to him in Starnberg (where 13 musicians stood on various levels of we were living together), and which the staircase of Tribschen. They were he had promised me as a quartet, into rehearsed secretly by the young Hans a morning serenade, and then he had Richter (later to become famous as a unconsciously woven our whole life conductor), who played horn, and also into it – Fidi’s birth, my recuperation, the brief trumpet part. Fidi’s bird, etc. As Schopenhauer said, this is the way a musician works – he The Siegfried Idyll is a kind of pendant expresses life in a language which to the music drama Siegfried, on which reason does not understand.’ Wagner had been working, and many of its themes are to be found in the Abridged from a note © David Garrett opera. The peaceful melody with which The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra first it begins is associated in the opera’s performed this work on 25 August 1939 under last act with Brünnhilde’s yielding, her conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent, and most recently on 27-29 August 2009 with Sir Andrew Davis. giving up of memories of immortality for love of Siegfried. Another theme, appearing in counterpoint with it, is

6 RICHARD WAGNER of set-pieces – arias, interludes and so (1813-1883) on. By Act I of Die Walküre, however, Die Walküre: Act I the ideals of have been largely met. The cross-referencing Eva-Maria Westbroek soprano effect of the leitmotifs gives the music (Sieglinde) an intense unity, and the vocal writing Frank Van Aken tenor (Siegmund) responds sensitively to the content of Daniel Sumegi bass (Hunding) the text – here in a scenario which is almost claustrophobically intimate. Die The Ring cycle grew out of Wagner’s Walküre was completed in 1856 and idea for an opera called Siegfrieds Tod first presented in 1870. In 1876 it was (Siegfried’s Death), the text of which he seen as part of the first Ring cycle at sketched in 1848. Much of this material Wagner’s theatre in Bayreuth. would end up in Götterdämmerung The story so far: (The Twilight of the Gods), the last In , the Nibelung dwarf opera in the cycle. Wagner found that steals the gold guarded on the he needed to trace the Teutonic legend river’s bed by the Rhinemaidens. With further and further back, ultimately it he fashions a magic ring which allows producing a sequence of four operas him to enslave his fellow Nibelungs. which, as he once put it, contain ’the Meanwhile two , Fafner and Fasolt, world’s end and its beginning’. These have completed the building of , are linked by a web of musical tags or the castle of Wotan and his fellow gods. leitmotifs, each of which represents a The agreed payment for their work is character, idea or emotion. the goddess Freia, but Wotan reneges; An avid polemicist, Wagner devoted with the help of the fire-god Loge he his 1852 monograph Opera and Drama tricks Alberich into giving up his treasure to the need to reform the genre along (including the ring) in order to buy off the lines that Gluck had in the 18th the giants. Alberich curses the ring as century, and execrated those works it is taken from him, and sure enough which elevated the singer, through the the giants fight over it. Fafner kills his medium of the aria, to the primary role. brother and retreats with the treasure to Wagner felt that in ‘music-drama’ the the wilderness (where he later assumes music should be seamless, and able to the form of a dragon). The Gods enter ‘completely stir, and also to completely Valhalla in triumph, despite the pleas of satisfy, feeling’; vocal lines should be the Rhinemaidens for the return of their a kind of heightened speech, so as to gold, and the cynical asides of Loge, render the intelligible. Together who knows that it will all end badly. with the stage picture, these elements Between the end of Das Rheingold in Wagner’s view fuse to form the ‘total and Act I of Die Walküre, Wotan has work of art’ where no element draws had a couple of affairs. With the earth attention to itself. goddess, Erda, he has fathered the In Das Rheingold, the first opera in the Valkyries, warrior maidens who gather tetralogy, we can still hear the outlines the souls of fallen heroes and take

7 them to Valhalla. The Ring, after all, Left alone, Siegmund remembers that is at still at large, so Wotan’s power is his father once promised that he would not absolute and he needs a bodyguard. provide a sword in the time of highest Disguised as a man, Wälse, he has also need. Sieglinde, who has drugged her fathered twins with a mortal mother, husband, returns and tells Siegmund hoping to produce a hero who will that on her wedding night a disguised save the world from the net of curses stranger (whom the orchestra identifies and lies which Wotan has allowed to for us as Wotan) strode into the hut and develop. The twins Siegmund and plunged into the trunk of the ash tree a Sieglinde were separated as children, sword which no-one has been able to but meet again in Act I of Die Walküre. pull out. The C major trumpet arpeggio which represents the sword glows in Now read on: the orchestra. The opera opens with a fierce orchestral storm, at the height of which Siegmund Suddenly the hut’s door blows open bursts into a hut built around a huge to reveal a spring landscape bathed ash tree in the forest. He is fleeing from in moonlight. Siegmund sings what is enemies and is exhausted, so asks the almost a conventional aria about the young woman in the hut for a drink. passing of winter’s storms and reveals She is frightened, but gives him a drink, that he is Siegmund the Wälsung; as Wagner’s music spins a passage of Sieglinde responds by revealing her extraordinary warmth out of a high cello identity as his twin sister. He pulls the line. Neither knows the other’s identity, sword from the tree and calls it ‘Nothung’ but a powerful attraction develops. (from Not or ‘need’) and the twins rush Sieglinde, however, is married – against into the forest to consummate their love her will – to Hunding, who arrives home for each other and continue the Wälsung to the sound of a grim motif for horns blood-line as the curtain falls. and Wagner tubas. According to the And then: rules of hospitality he must make his Siegmund must, of course, die guest welcome, despite his evident for breaking the incest taboo, and distrust of this man who calls himself Brünnhilde, the Valkyrie of the title Wehwalt, or ‘son of sorrow’. will be punished for trying to help him Siegmund describes how he, his mother in defiance of her father. But Sieglinde and sister lived in the forest until a day will escape, and give birth to Siegfried, when he came home to find the women and there will be two more operas before gone and their hut destroyed. In the the Rhinemaidens get their gold back. course of the discussion, however, it becomes clear that the enemies Gordon Kerry © 2004 from whom Siegmund was fleeing The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra was the first Symphony Australia network orchestra to are Hunding’s clan. As Siegmund killed perform Act I of Die Walküre, in August 1981 with some of them, Hunding gives him the conductor Sir Charles Mackerras, as part of a complete concert performance of the opera. The protection of his house for the night, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra performed Act I but vows vengeance on the unarmed in May 1988 with Nicholas Braithwaite; this is the Siegmund the following morning. third Symphony Australia network performance.

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Sir Andrew Davis Monica Curro Rachael Tobin Chief Conductor Assistant Principal Associate Principal Danny Gorog and Lindy Benjamin Northey # Nicholas Bochner Associate Conductor Susskind Assistant Principal # Anthony Pratt Mary Allison Miranda Brockman Tianyi Lu Isin Cakmakcioglu Geelong Friends of the MSO# Cybec Assistant Conductor Tiffany Cheng Rohan de Korte # Hiroyuki Iwaki Freya Franzen Andrew Dudgeon Conductor Laureate Keith Johnson (1974–2006) Cong Gu Andrew Hall Sarah Morse FIRST VIOLINS Isy Wasserman Angela Sargeant Maria Sola# Dale Barltrop Philippa West Concertmaster Michelle Wood Patrick Wong # Sophie Rowell Andrew and Theresa Dyer Concertmaster Roger Young Zoe Knighton* The Ullmer Family Foundation# Michael Loftus-Hills* Peter Edwards DOUBLE BASSES VIOLAS Assistant Principal Steve Reeves John McKay and Lois McKay# Christopher Moore Principal Principal Kirsty Bremner # Di Jameson Andrew Moon Sarah Curro Fiona Sargeant Associate Principal Michael Aquilina# Associate Principal Sylvia Hosking Peter Fellin Lauren Brigden Assistant Principal Deborah Goodall Mr Tam Vu and Dr Cherilyn Damien Eckersley Tillman# Lorraine Hook Benjamin Hanlon Katharine Brockman Anne-Marie Johnson Suzanne Lee Kirstin Kenny Christopher Cartlidge Michael Aquilina# Stephen Newton Ji Won Kim Sophie Galaise and Clarence Anthony Chataway # Eleanor Mancini Fraser Dr Elizabeth E Lewis AM# Chisholm & Gamon# Emma Sullivan* Mark Mogilevski Gabrielle Halloran Maria Sola# FLUTES Michelle Ruffolo Trevor Jones Kathryn Taylor Prudence Davis Michael Aquilina# Cindy Watkin Principal Anonymous# Harry Bennetts* Elizabeth Woolnough Wendy Clarke Zoe Black* Caleb Wright Associate Principal Nicholas Waters* William Clark* Sarah Beggs Ceridwen Davies* SECOND VIOLINS Nadine Delbridge* PICCOLO Matthew Tomkins Andrew Macleod Principal CELLOS Principal The Gross Foundation# David Berlin Robert Macindoe Principal Associate Principal MS Newman Family#

10 Rebecca Luton* OBOES MSO BOARD Jeffrey Crellin Alexander Morton* Chairman Principal Rachel Shaw*^ Michael Ullmer Thomas Hutchinson Philip Wilson* Associate Principal TRUMPETS Managing Director Ann Blackburn Sophie Galaise The Rosemary Norman Geoffrey Payne* Foundation# Guest Principal Board Members Rachel Curkpatrick* Shane Hooton Andrew Dyer Associate Principal COR ANGLAIS Danny Gorog William Evans Margaret Jackson AC Michael Pisani Rosie Turner Principal John and Diana Frew# Di Jameson David Krasnostein CLARINETS TROMBONES David Li David Thomas Brett Kelly Principal Hyon-Ju Newman Principal Philip Arkinstall Glenn Sedgwick Richard Shirley Associate Principal Tim and Lyn Edward# Helen Silver AO Craig Hill Mike Szabo Company Secretary Principal Bass Trombone BASS CLARINET Oliver Carton Elijah Cornish* Jon Craven Bass Trombone Principal Jonathon Ramsay*‡ BASSOONS Bass Trumpet Jack Schiller TUBA Principal Timothy Buzbee Elise Millman Principal Associate Principal David J. Saltzman* Natasha Thomas TIMPANI** CONTRABASSOON Christine Turpin* Brock Imison Principal PERCUSSION HORNS Robert Clarke Principal Malcolm Stewart*† Guest Principal John Arcaro # Position supported by Tim and Lyn Edward# Saul Lewis * Guest Musician Acting Associate Principal Robert Cossom ** Timpani Chair position supported by Lady Potter AC CMRI Ian Wildsmith* HARP Guest Principal Third † Courtesy of Queensland Symphony Orchestra Abbey Edlin Yinuo Mu Principal Nereda Hanlon and Michael ^ Courtesy of Orchestra Victoria Hanlon AM# Delyth Stafford* ‡ Courtesy of Tasmanian Symphony Trinette McClimont Orchestra

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