Wagner in Vermont: Siegfried
TUNDI 2023 Wagner in Vermont Festival presents Siegfried by Richard Wagner on Sunday, August 20, at 4:00pm and Thursday, August 24, at 4:00pm. Tickets range from $36-$200
An orphaned boy, brought up deep in the forest, is growing up. He asks uncomfortable questions as he starts to seek independence from his foster-parent, Mime. The boy is Siegfried, who will fully emancipate himself from Mime (come and find out how!), slay a dragon, learn the speech of a spirit-bird to guide him, and unwittingly enter the cosmic struggle between immortals for the baleful Ring.
He will – also unwittingly – change the balance of the whole cosmos by casually breaking the rune-spear of an old Wanderer. This action is an access to the peace and freedom that his own grandfather, Wotan, yearns for.
He experiences fear only when removing Brünnhilde's armor from her sleeping body, ringed by Magic Fire on a mountaintop.
The music of Siegfried is one of the miracles of art: we are privileged to hear and see nature in its purest, magical beauty, and the dawning of love. The music also tells of innocence, spite, heroism, good and evil – alongside a grey-scale of uncertainty and hesitation lying in between these emotional states.
The love of Siegfried and Brünnhilde that ensues will save the world. TUNDI wishes that for our own world.
Siegfried is in three acts, There will be breaks for dining and refreshment of 90 minutes and 25 minutes between acts.
For information about wheelchair accessibility, please call Jon Potter at 802-254-1109, ext. 3. Visit www.wagnerinvermont.org for more information