Royal Opera

Siegfried

In Cinemas 2, 3 & 6 May 2026
Conductor
Antonio Pappano
Orchestra
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Cast
Andreas Schager (Siegfried), Peter Hoare (Mime), Christopher Maltman (Der Wanderer), Elisabet Strid (Brünnhilde), Christopher Purves (Alberich), Soloman Howard (Fafner), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (Erda), Sarah Dufresne (Woodbird)
Composer
Richard Wagner
Director
Barrie Kosky
Set Design
Rufis Didwiszus
Duration
5h24 incl. 2 intervals
Sung in German, with English subtitles.
Captured live from Covent Garden, London, 31 Mar 2025
Official Event Listing
  • Invigorating and mesmerising. Pappano and Kosky seem absolutely of one mind here, and it’s gratifying to see and hear the unfolding of a Ring cycle that’s so serious in its intent yet so deft in its touch.
    Erica Jeal, THE GUARDIAN
    A spectacular triumph. Remarkably performed and staged.
    Barry Millington, THE STANDARD
    A winner. Anyone coming to Wagner for the first time and catching the first act would surely be hooked for life. Under Pappano, you hear every colour in the score, especially the chuntering clarinets and bassoons, and at a pace of wonderful vitality.
    David Nice, THE ARTS DESK
    First-class. Schager is a genuine heroic tenor: for stamina and security, the Royal Opera has not seen his equal in half a century. There is not a dull moment here.
    Richard Fairman, THE FINANCIAL TIMES
    Transcendent.
    George Hall, THE STAGE
    A triumph. The standard of singing is spectacularly high across the board. Schager is superb: the leading Siegfried of our day. Pappano draws glorious, transparent colours from the impeccable Royal Opera Orchestra.
    Nicholas Kenyon, THE TELEGRAPH
    A Siegfried for the record books.
    David Karlin, BACHTRACK
    Magnificent. Everything about this production is superb.
    William Hartston, EXPRESS

Opera in three acts (1857)

New Production! A fearless hero awakens destiny. 

Raised by a scheming dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey. Soon, destiny brings him face-to-face with a shattered sword, a fearsome dragon and the cursed ring it guards, and a Valkyrie forced into enchanted slumber...

Moments of transcendent beauty and heroic triumph sparkle in the third chapter of Wagner’s Ring cycle, brought to life under Barrie Kosky’s inspired eye following his spectacular Das Rheingold (2023) and Die Walküre (2025). 

Andreas Schager, in his much-anticipated debut with The Royal Opera, stars as Siegfried’s titular hero, alongside Christopher Maltman’s towering Wanderer, Peter Hoare’s treacherous Mime and Elisabet Strid’s radiant Brünnhilde. 

Antonio Pappano conducts, drawing out the unspoken tensions and ethereal mysticism of Wagner’s dynamic score.

ROH Guidance: This production contains nudity, blood and violence. There are themes of incest. There are pyrotechnics used towards the end of Act 1 [19/3/26.]

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