Gerhard Siegel Mime
Simon O’Neill Siegfried
Iain Paterson Wotan/The Wanderer
Martin Winkler Alberich
Clive Bayley Fafner
Malin Christensson Woodbird
Anna Larsson Erda
Rachel Nicholls Brünnhilde
Captured live at the Bridgewater Hall by the Hallé’s award-winning engineer Steve Portnoi, this recording features soloists of the highest calibre and opera specialist Sir Mark Elder in the third opera from Wagner's epic 'Ring' cycle.
‘An outstanding achievement, then, and one which should be placed very high in the ‘form order’ of competing versions—especially of newer Siegfrieds—it’s now almost impossible to draw up. The p ...
‘I was seriously impressed by Rachel Nicholls as Brünnhilde, woken fresh-voiced from her enchanted sleep in the opera's last act … it's a world-class cast for the most part, but the Hallé itself ...
Financial Times
‘I was seriously impressed by Rachel Nicholls as Brünnhilde, woken fresh-voiced from her enchanted sleep in the opera's last act … it's a world-class cast for the most part, but the Hallé itself ...
Financial Times