Siegfried

Ignorant of his own ancestry, Siegfried grows up with the grumpy dwarf Mime. Mime plans to use his strong and fearless foster son to recover the Rhine gold for himself and then do away with Siegfried. However, Siegfried learns of the Nibelung’s murderous intent, kills him and sets off to finally acquaint himself with fear. He finds Brünnhilde and releases her from her endless sleep. Will love finally triumph after all?
The rediscovery of the Nibelungen manuscript at the end of the 18th century enriched German mythology by giving it its most important heroic figure. In ‘Siegfried’ Richard Wagner tells the story leading up to the tragic events of ‘Götterdämmerung’.