Götterdämmerung Final - Brünnhilde Immolation Scene II

[gayguitar]

She is so magnificent! I love Anne Evans and I love this Ring -- too bad this cuts off before the extraordinary ending with the boy and the girl hand in hand walking past Alberich. It brings me to tears and leaves me refreshed.

[windstorm1000]

Flack jackets and ghetto bums in ancient German mythology. Right

[Napoleontas]

I see how the Bayreth festival is trying to present it self knowdays in a dadaistic and modernistic style more fitting to communistic and bolshevik "art" forms, while the Jewish led Met doesnt have that particular problem to appear "modern" so it produces more decent stagings. Phobia i would say

It is a tragedy

[windstorm1000]

terrible in every way

[Rattywotin]

Bugger, cuts off just before !Zuruck Vom Ring" and the wonderful ending - shame on you for not letting it run its course!!

[wigs666]

Why cut it off after 3.04 minutes? FAIL

Love Wagner. Hate those who can't edit a clip.

[fastborzoi]

agree, best dramatic Ring ever

[MrAdvancedAtheist]

In Hollywood's comic book version, Sinestro would fight the Rhine Maidens for possession of the Ring.

[Bardolator38]

I saw a finale to Gotterdamerung several months ago on youtube that I'm trying to find again....it had Brunnhilde holding a baby at the very end. Can someone help me out?

[droliverrosteck]

@Bardolator38 It is the Copenhagen Production.

[droliverrosteck]

@Bardolator38 Royal Danish Opera Copenhagen, in May 2006

[MatteoTornado]

horrible the modern scenography

[notruf34]

God, how wonderful! Never in the history of music has been written any page with such intensity, emotion, strength, passion .... there is simply not enough adjectives. It is truly the voice of God. If there is a heaven and Wagner is not in it I do not care to go there!

[Rory1956]

I love but but that Hagen behind is really annoying...

[gimazh]

And please stop all those comments about Matrix. It is a great movie, but it came 11 years after this staging. This ring was first performed in '88, Matrix came in '99.

The big movies in '88 were The naked Gun (the first one) and Rain Man. Just to get a feeling how far ahead Bayreuth is compared to Hollywood... *smile*

[5x5equals25]

@gimazh That's right. Silly scenographies of the Ring have started since the 60s and especially at Bayreuth.

[gimazh]

Tschernobyl. It is an apocalyptic interpretation that still shows hope that it will kind of go on. Even in the Ring, there is someone who is kind of above wotan: Erda.

What we see at the end of Götterdämmerung is not the end of the world, just the end of an era. Earth, Erda the forces of nature will remain and there will be a next round... I mean: do we really know that our civication was the first an only? Even if we all die one day, evolution will start over while we are forgotten...

[gimazh]

Another addendum to the "Why are there two kids question":

Götterdämmerung ends with a motive that is only used twice and is known as the redemption motive. In the final scene it is combined with the wallhalla theme and is used just once before that. In the third act of walkyrie, when Sieglinde learns that she is pregnant and sings "O hehrstes Wunder!". This kind of impies, that the end is not final, that it is just another beginning. Thus the kids, going on. This staging came two years after

[Kuner1]

matrix leather coats and sunglasses? o_O

why is it that 95% of wagner operas dress the actors up like b-movie rejects?

[windstorm1000]

Lets strip the magic/myth out of the Ring and make Brundhilde into a gang queen. Right.

[windstorm1000]

Oh, c'mon 'sunglasses' what is this shit? Looks like ghetto punk trash. Wagner is rolling in his grave. But no surprise---Bayreth is no longer the home of REAL wagner--except the music--the baton is passed to the MET.

[Chrissie19242]

@windstorm1000 I Fully agree with.this. The only non-traditional ( and utterly 'modern') version of the Ring was by Ivo Van Hove. I thought it would be a disaster but it was marvellous. The 'Ring' e.g. is a computerchip that makes the owner the ruler of the world. i wish I could get hold of it on DVD next to the beautiful traditional version of the Met sometime in the nineties under Barenboim.

[singingisall]

The combinations of the motives are sooooooo amazing !!!

[mas709]

Is that Hagen or Morpheus from the Matrix? Brünnhilde and Hagen look like they could be a tag team in the WWE.

[Soriehlam]

Where's the horse? ._.

[NAllen828]

I just realized a terrible truth about the Austrian Corporal... that idiot thought he was Seigfried...

[Operaman41]

Who is the Brunnhilda??

[NAllen828]

@Operaman41 Fail, read the translation, apparently she was in love with Siegfried or something...

[Operaman41]

@NAllen828 No darhlin I know who bruenhilda is as in the "charchter" I meant the singer who is the singer singing Bruenhilda??

She is not only in love with the Siegfried but she is also his aunt!!

[WagneroperaNET]

@Operaman41 Anne Evans

[groll103]

@Operaman41 She is one of the Walkyries!! Read the Libretto

[Mrsdaibread]

Bayreuth is too small for Wagner.

[1871freude]

@Mrsdaibread AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ignoramus

[IndianKBlue]

I like the cold, sparse staging.

But the black-leather duster jackets and sunglasses? Horrible. Why is she asking for her "steed" when it looks like she could pop out a cellphone and call a taxi?

[Jaydoggy531]

Why is Wotan there?

[gustavyeung]

@Jaydoggy531:  I think that was Hagen, not Wotan.

[OldWorldAmerican]

That's not Wotan; it's Hagen. Even if it were, Wotan's spear was already broken, which is great imagery. The subtext to Valhalla burning, besides any juxtaposition, is that Wotan has taken the point of Gungnir, his broken spear, and plunged it into Loge's chest. Loge bursts into flames and finally gets to "destroy it all" like he felt like doing back in Das Rheingold.

[oktobercat]

Sheer audio visual magic, germanic beauty  and power..........<3

[Kethvan]

Ending ending!!!! Such a masterpiece without it's ending part is truely a great pity.

[OldWorldAmerican]

Really! C'mon saitbey, we appreciate the post, but what is the Brunhilde immolation scene without the results of her sacrifice? She redeems the world, I hear. Can we see it please?

[lewars1912]

Great video. Where's the ending? Doesn't make sense.

[Sieglinde84]

Damn, I wanted to see how Hagen dies... not to mention the end. :D

[Arminiushoff]

This is MAJESTIC

[wenarto]

OMG - i cannot believe you cut it at the end....

[branko1b]

saitbey could you possibly post the last 3 minutes too? i'd imagine it to be the visually most interesting part - maybe it is not so in this production, but it would be good to see it

many thanks

[odingreen]

Genaue es das Brunnhilde ist mit uns aur der Erd! My name ist Woden and Ich bin der Herr dein Gott!

[NoirOrchestre]

I think this ring is totally heavy...not interesting

[796824]

LISTEN to MARJORIE LAWRENCE, FREIDA LEIDER and GERMAINE LUBIN

[58wotan]

thanks, saitbey for those posts, I discovered it have good image, good sound and good critics, and it,s Bayreuth, for me is enough for buy this cycle ring

[HuninMunin]

To me this is indeed the definitive Ring avaiable on DVD - that is until something really mindblowing happens in the future.

I even like it better then the Cherau \ Boulez Ring for various reasons. The cast is ultimatly great; maybe not the typical choices but complete and homogenous as a truly concincing group of singing actors. Same and more could be said about what happens in the mythical pit. Belongs into every collection in my opinion.

[HuninMunin]

I might add that the set is picture perfect in technical terms aswell. 16:9 image with great sharpness, colour, contrast.

And on top the marvelous Bayreuth sound avaibable in high quality PCM stereo and real 5.1 and DTS sound ( REAL 5.1 and DTS sound recorded properly not the upsampled digital bogus we sometimes have to endure ).

[NazTb0y]

@HuninMunin I'm also a fan of this ring (have the DVD), but the ending confuses me. maybe you could help me understand it. 1. Where's the horse? Are we that the horse will greet her in the fire? they could have at least given us a silhouette 2. what's up with the ppl that show up and watch TVs that pop up out of nowhere? and where the hell did the two little kids come from? Is it supposed to mean that B and S are reborn in the afterlife as blissful cherubs?

[HuninMunin]

@NazTb0y

Well concerning number 1 your guess is as good as mine - no idea.

I'm pretty certain about number 2 though.

In the very beginning of Das Rheingold of this ring ( even before the music starts ) we see a similar crowd of people standing together in a cloud of smoke.

I always interpreted them as beeing survivors of a preceeding catastrophy, therefor making the tetralogy a ring ( circle ) in a literal sense.

[HuninMunin]

@NazTb0y

However they don't seem to realise the significance of the event ( decadently watching the world end on TV ) and are consequently doomed to start the cicle anew. Strangely enough Kupfer doesn't let it end on that pessimistic note though. The children are clearly part of that ( human ) crowd, dressed in the same decadent evening wardrobe. However they seem to have realised what just went down and detach themself from society to find a way out, thus ending on a note of hope for humanty.

[NazTb0y]

@HuninMunin brilliant analysis... thanks a lot! 1. I guess B could be calling to Grane in the distance. No real harm done. 2. a very Nietzschean reading! reminds me of the Madman's speech in the Gay Science when he announces the death of god to a bunch of business men who have no idea the consequences of god's death... A time so dark that we don't even realize our own darkness--the world has entered into that. Yet even now there is hope...

[rabengeraun]

Why does Barenboim have to ruin everything with such perverse tempi? He's NOT Furtwaengler and shouldn't try to be.

[thebloads]

if that sentence makes perfect sense when you switch both names, then yours is a purely subjective judgement.

[Goetterhand]

Grüße aus der Oberlausitz!

[spinto12]

wow...

[ophGR]

This is the best RING ever! Musically and visually...

[franco96544]

@ophGR Please. look for ther RING BY LEVINE ( metropolitan) in my opinion, this is the best. If Wagner was there, for sure he will be very very happy!! On the contrary, if he was here, for sure he would blame the scene, the sunglass, the long trenchcoat! I bought this record, but never seen! ( if you wish I can send it to you!!) Can't stand such abuse! Musically is ok, but, is better not to watch!!

[LeChevalierDuFeu]

@ophGR eeehhmmm, NO! it isn´t. thier damn accent spoils the performances! and there were better singers in the 50ies anyway.

[truefakeness]

Having Brünnhilde break Hagen's spear like that was such a wonderful dramatic touch - I love it!!

[Waldvogel91]

Oooo I love Loge's music so much!

[diuscorvus]

The only non-traditional staging of this opera that I've enjoyed. Completely unabashed and very effective. :)

[qwerthy]

L'ultima vera grande Brunnhilde della discografia

[isabelle070209]

Ninna Stemme Brunnhilde this year in San Francisco

[loboestepario24]

I would want to see Grane at least once...

[Waldvogel91]

Yes same here! Even if it's just a horse's head on a stick to represent it it's better than nothing- a key line is 'Grane, mein Ross.' And if there's no horse there it just makes Brunnhilde look mad.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@Waldvogel91 I think it is meant to be a spear. Wagner had a thing about spears- and viking helmets.

[TheVoiceOfReason93]

@Waldvogel91

Maybe that's the whole point.

[Waldvogel91]

@TheVoiceOfReason93 I wouldn't bet on it...the director has not chosen to include a horse because he has distanced this production from the true imagery of the operas. I WANT A HORSE!

[Chrissie19242]

@loboestepario24 I saw a real Grane only once :In 'Interrupted Melody' a movie relating biography of Marjorie Lawrence. It was a performance in the Met where Brunnhilde not only sings 'Grane; mein Ross sei mir gegrüsst ' to a beautiful horse, but jumps on its back before before 'Sieh, meine Brust auch , wie sie entschwill helles Feuer..... and finally rides into the flames after Selig grüsst dich, dein Weib. It was..... marvellous....

[pboast]

Soprano is great here at the end of all things , but feel the interpretaion so rushed and without alot of feeling