Siegfried
April 26, 2025 - May 4, 2025
Weaving together the stories and characters from Das Rheingold and Die Walküre in The Atlanta Opera’s Ring Cycle, Siegfried is the epic five-hour opera that shatters the oppression of the ancients to create a vision of a magnificent future where love, courage, and wisdom triumph over the lure of unfettered power. The third opera in the four-part Das Ring des Nibelungen.
Performed in German with English Supertitles
Performance runtime: approximately 4 hours, 55 minutes
Act I: 80 minutes | Intermission: 25 minutes | Act II: 80 minutes | Intermission: 25 minutes | Act IV: 80 minutes
Composer & LIbrettist: Richard Wagner
Premiere Performance: Aug 16, 1876—Bayreuth Festival Theatre, Bayreuth, Germany