Siegfried has been described as the scherzo of the Ring cycle and Andreas Homoki seems to have at least partly run with that.  There are quite a few places, including some less obvious ones, where he seems to be going for laughs.  The obvious ones are obvious enough.  You can’t really have a bear in the first scene without it being comic but there were also times when Wanderer was camping it up a bit.  We’ll come back to that.

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