Siegfried: Performance History
First performance: 16 August 1876,
Festspielhaus, Bayreuth
Cast:
- Siegfried : Georg Unger
(also created role of Froh)
- Mime : Karl Schlosser
- Der Wanderer : Franz Betz
- Alberich : Karl Hill
(also created role of Klingsor in Parsifal)
- Fafner : Franz von Reichenberg
- Ein Waldvogel : Marie Haupt
(also created roles of Freia and Gerhilde)
- Erda : Luise Jaide
(also created role of Waltraute)
- Brünnhilde : Amalia Materna
(also created role of Kundry in Parsifal)
First performance in:
- Austria: 9 Nov 1878, Vienna
- United Kingdom: 8? May 1882, London (His Majesty's)
[as part of the Ring]
- Poland: Sep 1882, Wroclaw [as part of the Ring]
- Netherlands: 5? Jan 1883, Amsterdam [as part of the Ring]
- Belgium: 26? Jan 1883, Brussels [as part of the Ring]
- Switzerland: 29? Mar 1883, Basle [as part of the Ring]
- Italy: 17? Apr 1883, Venice [as part of the Ring]
- Hungary: 26? May 1883, Budapest [as part of the Ring]
- Czech Republic: 9 Jan 1887, Prague
- United States: 9 Nov 1887, New York (Met)
- Russia: 14? Mar 1889, St. Petersburg [as part of the Ring]
- Latvia: 28 Mar 1898, Riga
- France: 17 Feb 1900, Rouen
- Spain: 15 Nov 1900, Barcelona
- Denmark: 22 Apr 1903, Copenhagen
- Finland: 15 Oct 1905, Helsinki
- Sweden: 11 Dec 1905, Stockholm
- Belarus: 21 Feb 1907, Lvov
- Argentina: 29 Aug 1908, Buenos Aires
- Monaco: 29? Jan 1909, Monte Carlo [as part of the Ring]
- Portugal: 1909, Lisbon [as part of the Ring]
- Scotland: 3? Mar 1910, Edinburgh [as part of the Ring]
- South Africa: 1913, Johannesburg
- Brazil: 21 Sep 1922, Rio de Janeiro
- Romania: 1? May 1938, Bucharest [as part of the Ring]
- Croatia: 26 May 1938, Zagreb
- Bulgaria: 13? Nov 1938, Sofia [as part of the Ring]
- Greece: 30? Nov 1938, Athens [as part of the Ring]
First performance at:
- Metropolitan Opera: 9 Nov 1887
(175 performances in 54 seasons through 1975-76)
- San Francisco Opera: 6 Nov 1935
(20 performances in 7 seasons through 1997-98,
most recently 29 Jun 1990)
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