Siegfried forges Notung anew (Boulez-Cheréau 1980)

From the Ring Centenary, conducted by Pierre Boulez, directed by Patrice Cheréau. Manfred Jung is Siegfried, Heinz Zednik is Mime.

[@matthewbbenton]

I always laugh at Mime holding up those eggs at 6:23. Heinz Zednik was simply perfection.

[@gerardosalas9477]

Mime looks like Larry David lol

[@TheInternetIsGod]

The definitive Mime.

[@susannevollmer2347]

I love Manfred Jungs Siegfried becouse its not only his voice, his appearence is a real "Siegfried" not a hero.

[@bernsteinbrocken]

Einzigartig wie Manfred Jung den Siegfried singt in Dynamik, Dramatik, sicherer wie klangvoller Höhe bei Textverständlichkeit..zudem ist das ein Siegfried, der drahtig agiert. Ein überzeugender Siegfried. Schade,daß auch seine Stimme für immer verstummt ist. Ein großer und bescheidener Künstler.

[@herrglupschi]

Sehr traurig! Unser Chor hat mit Ihm als Dirigent einige Projekte gesungen. Musikalisch eine unglaubliche Persönlichkeit!

[@1matthiasmnich]

Diese Ring-Inszenierung ist noch heute in allem das Maß aller Dinge. P. Chereau und P. Boulez brachten dieses Werk in Gänze zur absoluten Vollendung, wenn ich mir ansehe was aus Bayreuth geworden ist, mit Richard Wagner hat das nichts mehr zu tun.

[@Blokewood3]

I used to find it disappointing that this production uses an automated drop hammer instead of having Siegfried hammer out the sword himself, but I've compared other productions and found that not a single performer has been able to get the hammer strikes perfectly. I guess it's just too distracting trying to sing and hammer to the beat at the same time, so maybe this production made a good choice after all by letting Siegfried just focus on the singing.

[@stephengould4343]

In a concert performance, Andreas Schager does it very well

[@Blokewood3]

@@stephengould4343 Schager does a great job singing and acting, but with the hammer, he loses the beat just after "...zornig spruh'st du mir funken..." I think that's about where most Siegfrieds lose the beat, because that section has tricky parts where the hammer strikes switch between one, two, or three at a time.

[@Blokewood3]

But Schager does a very good job at making it look like everything went to plan. If it weren't for me already knowing where the hammer strikes are supposed to go, I wouldn't have noticed anything off.

[@ivank.357]

Notung looks kind of small to me in this production

[@magicmachine1637]

Looks like a model 1816 french shortsword, so it fits the period staging atleast!

[@andreapandypetrapan]

Swords don't have to be enormous to be highly phallic! Love, andrea.

[@ben-rosfeld]

My favorite Mime and Siegfried

[@MathewGlenn]

I love that they got Larry David to sing Mime

[@juliusyoung3467]

I came here to say that.

[@tituscaesar]

ne plus ultra.

[@kambiztaghavi]

Lol 😂 the big hammer has a C natural hum sound after each beat ! Boulez must have been angry at this !

[@katjez328]

It's better than Bayreuth.

[@franzwin6772]

It was Bayreuth.

[@illyaismaili6413]

This is Bayreuth 😂

[@beate-mariavorwerk3777]

Unglaublich,fantastisch...mitreissend

[@1977ajax]

As with every other attempt at staging this, it's so weak in comparison to what the imagination can do with the scene, and indeed with the entre cycle.

[@1977ajax]

@@zogwort1522 You poor sod, are you really that far from any concept of what is happening here? Still, I guess your interpretive social-justice and CRT dance lecturer will give you top marks for that comment, so all's well.

[@hedoyoga]

Der beste Mime! Der Siegfried Darsteller hat echt eine tolle Stimme, ist charismatisch aber so hoffnungslos unterlegen, dass ich in dieser Inszenierung auf jeden Fall Mime zutrauen würde Fafner selbst zu erledigen. Viel kraftvoller als dieser verlegene Siegfried.

[@Ironfootx1]

Tempo way too fast, was it sped up?