WAGNER, R.: Siegfried (Ring Cycle 3) (Attila Jun/ Bjorn Waag/ Gabriela Herrera/ Heinz Gohrig/ Helene Ranada/ Jon Frederic West/ Lisa Gasteen/ Lothar Zagrosek/ Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra/ Wolfgang Schone) (Naxos: 8.660175-78)

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Not since the so-called \100 Year Ring" (Bayreuth, 1976 to 1980) has a performance of Richard Wagner's monumental cycle created such a sensation as the Stuttgart productions. Each of the four parts was staged under a different team of directors and with a different cast, an unusual approach that had never before been realised on this scale. The four individual productions garnered the praise of national and international critics, who voted the Stuttgart Staatsoper "Opera House of the Year" three times in a row, not least because of this Ring. This month is the turn of 'Siegfried', the third part of his 'Ring' tetralogy, featuring the colossal figure of Jon Fredric West. "