Sigurd (opera)

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Sigurd is an opera in four acts and nine scenes by the French composer Ernest Reyer on a libretto by Camille du Locle and Alfred Blau. Like Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, the story is based on the Niebelungenlied and the Volsunga Saga. The work was first performed at the Théatre de la Monnaie in Brussels on January 7, 1884 directed by Stoumon and Calabresi. It was later performed in Paris at the Académie Nationale de Musique on June 12, 1885 directed by Ritt and Gailhard.

[edit] Characters

• Sigurd, Frankish hero tenor
• Gunther, king of the Burgundians, baritone
• Hagen, warrior, companion of Gunther, bass
• The High Priest of Odin, baritone
• Rudiger, baritone
• Irnfrid, tenor
• Hawart, baritone
• Ramunc, bass
• The bard, bass
• Brunehild, Valkyrie expelled from Heaven soprano
• Hilda, Gunther's sister, mezzo-soprano
• Uta, Hilda's nurse, mezzo-soprano

Burgundian warriors, Burgundian people, Icelandic people, Priests, Wives of Burgundian warriors, Maids to Hilda and the Queen, Valets, etc.

In the ballets:

• Act 1: The three Norns, Valkyries, Nixes, Elves, Cobbolds
• Act 3: Warriors and Wives
• Act 4 (Apotheosis): Odin's Paradise

[edit] Setting

• Place: Worms and Iceland
• Time: mythic

[edit] External links

• Libretto