Wagner Siegfried Act 3 (concert performance)
Saturday 2nd December 8pm at Inverness Cathedral
Sunday 3rd December 3pm at Strathpeffer Pavilion
Wanderer Sir John Tomlinson
Siegfried Brad Cooper
Brünnhilde Lee Bisset
Erda Rozanna Madylus
Conducted by Tomas Leakey (2nd December) and Anthony Negus (3rd December)
Please note this performance will last c.85 minutes and will not have an interval.
In December we continue with Act 3 from Wagner’s opera Siegfried in concert. We are delighted to welcome back legendary bass Sir John Tomlinson to sing the role of the Wanderer, Brad Cooper in the title role, Lee Bisset as Brünnhilde and Rozanna Madylus as Erda. This is a very special chance to hear Wagnerian singing of the most extraordinary power in the immediacy of our small venues. Siegfried, the third opera in Wagner’s Ring Cycle, follows the coming of age of the hero Siegfried and in Act 3 he overcomes the Wanderer and Loge’s wall of fire to reach a mountaintop on which his future lover Brünnhilde had been imprisoned in sleep. Composed after a 12-year hiatus in Wagner’s work on the mammoth 15-hour Ring Cycle, the music is some of the most gripping ever written.
Our venues
Inverness Cathedral and Strathpeffer Pavilion are both fully accessible. Wheelchair and companion seats can be reserved on request – please send us a message and we will be delighted to arrange this. If you have any questions please just contact us.
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These concerts are generously supported by Tony Shoults, the members of the Mahler Circle, the Hugh Fraser Foundation, The Wagner Society, The Wagner Society of Scotland, Inverness Common Good Fund and HRI-Munro Architecture.
