Götterdämmerung

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If there's a dominating hero at the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Götterdämmerung, it's not Siegfried, although Jay Hunter Morris continues to show bright promise in the famously taxing role.

Conductor Fabio Luisi is the one on whose brow laurels should be placed. On the podium for about five hours (interspersed with two intermissions to refresh himself), he insures that the musical passion Richard Wagner built into his motifs and orchestrations is manifest throughout.



Thanks to his sympathetic perspicacity and to several of the singers, including bass-baritone Eric Owens, who takes charge of Alberich with such booming resonance that he deservedly received the[...]