An Evening of Shifting Colours: Anja-Rosa Thöming reports on the next instalment of Dresden’s historically informed ‘Ring’

Much like Die Walküre last year, this concert performance of Siegfried, given in historically informed style, left a captivating impression. The 14 June performance at the Dresden Philharmonic Hall in the Kulturpalast marked a highlight of this year’s Dresden Music Festival, held under the guiding theme of ‘Love’, and followed previous performances of the opera in Prague, Cologne and Paris.

Once again, Kent Nagano conducted the ensemble Concerto Köln, augmented by musicians from the Dresden Festival Orchestra. A team of scholars had researched the historical context, with their findings flowing directly into the current production.