Week 1

Now we are really getting ahead with the rehearsals on Die Götterdämmerung. This week we changed a lot of things and it’s a great relieve to see how good things are working out. We had a long discussion about the consequences of Brünnhilde’s pregnancy. It means that Gunter and Gutrune have to doubt if it is Brünnhilde Siegfried forgot when they gave him the “oblivion-drink” earlier than planned. Maybe it’s not so bad that the doubt is nagging everybody a bit more during the 2nd act - on the contrary I actually think it’s quite good.

We still need to get through a part of 2nd scene in the 1st act, 2nd scene in the 2nd act, and the final scene. We will have the time to do that next week. The week after that I will rehearse with the choir, and from Friday 20th we’re on stage rehearsing. Things are starting to move really fast and the prospects are very promising, I think.

The rehearsals on Siegfried got hampered by an accident on the Main Stage which illustrates that the time schedule is too tight. In spite of that it looks like it’s progressing very well though, and I think that the three new singers on the cast; Johnny, Ole and Kjeld are doing a fantastic job! Anne Fugl has run the rehearsals without me, so it was quite strange actually to join a rehearsal and to see the three singers in my own staging, not having worked with them at all! But it all looks good and they’ll do great on stage.