Composer & LIbrettist: Richard Wagner
Premiere Performance: Aug 16, 1876 Bayreuth Festival Theatre, Bayreuth, Germany
Weaving together the stories and characters from Das Rheingold and Die Walküre in The Atlanta Opera's Ring Cycle, Siegfried is the epic five-hour opera that shatters the oppression of the ancients to create a vision of a magnificent future where love, courage, and wisdom triumph over the lure of unfettered power. The third opera in the four-part Das Ring des Nibelungen.
Performed in German with English Supertitles
Performance runtime: approximately 4 hours, 55 minutes
Act I: 80 minutes | Intermission: 25 minutes | Act II: 80 minutes | Intermission: 25 minutes | Act IV: 80 minutes