Wagner - Siegfried, at the Paris Opera Bastille
ONP Bastille, Wednesday January 28 2026 Conductor: Pablo Heras-Casado. Production: Calixto Bieito. Sets: Rebecca Ringst. Costumes: Ingo Krügler. Lighting: Michael Bauer. Video: Sarah Derendinger. Siegfried: Andreas Schager. Mime: Gerhard Siegel. Der Wanderer: Derek Welton. Alberich: Brian Mulligan. Fafner: Mika Kares. Erda: Marie-Nicole Lemieux. Brünnhilde: Tamara Wilson. Waldvogel: Ilanah Lobel-Torres. Photos: Herwig Prammer/ONP With only one more instalment to go, Calixto Bieito’s overall plan for his Ring is becoming clearer, as it ought to be by this stage. I’m going to begin my post with a substantial (though abbreviated) quotation from the Paris Opera’s website, because it sums up the story so far. We... ‘... began in Das Rheingold with big data (...) total information and total surveillance of private life, and continued in the militarized cosmos of Die Walküre , where the digital world collapses at every level as a result of war - an apocalypse in which lov...