TUNDI 2023 Wagner in Vermont Festival presents Siegfried by Richard Wagner on Sunday, August 20, at 4:00pm.
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 intervals between acts for dining and refreshment. The first interval will begin at approximately 5.30pm, for 90 minutes. Act Two will begin at 7.00pm. The second interval will begin at around 8.20pm. Act Three will begin at 8.50pm.
Siegfried Cast
For information about wheelchair accessibility, please call Jon Potter at 80-2254-1109, ext. 3