Le Crépusucule des Dieux

Götterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods). Richard Wagner. Running time: 5h50 with 2 intervals. Language: German. Surtitles: French / English. In Götterdämmerung, Siegfried takes his leave of Brünnhilde to travel the world and perform new feats.

They will be his last: on his journey along the Rhine, he falls into a sinister plot hatched by Alberich and his son Hagen.

The fall of the gods is inevitable… Bringing the Ring Cycle to a close with Götterdämmerung, its most metaphysical instalment, Richard Wagner delivers music as blazing as the pyre on which Brünnhilde immolates herself.

There is no shortage of emotion either, as shown by Siegfried's Funeral March, one of the most striking orchestral passages in the score.

First performed in 1876 at the inaugural Bayreuth Festival, the work is staged here by Calixto Bieito, who also brings his reading of the Ring Cycle for the Paris Opera, begun in 2025, to a close. Richard Wagner: music and libretto. Calixto Bieito: director.

Cast: Andreas Schager (Siegfried), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Gunther), Mika Kares (Hagen), Brian Mulligan (Alberich), Tamara Wilson (Brünnhilde), Sinead Campbell Wallace (Gutrune), Eve-Maud Hubeaux (Waltraute), Aude Extrémo (First Norn)