Wagner: Gotterdammerung

Levine conducts Götterdämmerung at Bayreuth - a first-time release on any format.

This is Alfred Kirchner's only filmed opera production in Bayreuth: Wagner's Götterdämmerung from 1997 under the baton of James Levine. This production features an all-star cast led by Deborah Polaski as Brünnhilde, Wolfgang Schmidt as Siegfried and Falk Struckmann as Gunther.

Gotterdammerung brings the betrayal and death of the young hero Siegfried and of his beloved Brunnhilde. The ring itself is restored to the Rhinemaidens, and the age of gods and heroes ends, as Valhalla burns. Stuttgart State Opera has been voted Opera Theatre of the Year six times by critics in Austria, Switzerland and Germany.