Richard Wagner: Siegfried (Vocal Score) (Opera / Vocal Score)

This vocal score is designed for advanced voice students, opera singers, coaches, and teachers who require a complete edition of Richard Wagners Siegfried for study, rehearsal, and performance preparation. It supports professional training by offering clear notation, dual-language text, and the structural detail necessary for mastering this major work in the operatic repertoire.

The score provides a full presentation of the opera with German and English text, allowing singers to work confidently with diction, phrasing, and dramatic interpretation. Each section is engraved for clarity, helping performers follow instrumental cues, vocal entrances, and character development throughout the opera. With 344 pages, it is a comprehensive resource suitable for studio lessons, staging rehearsals, and long-term study of Wagnerian technique.

This edition helps singers strengthen interpretive depth, improve vocal stamina, and develop the expressive range required for Wagners demanding writing. Teachers and coaches will find it useful for guiding students through character preparation, scene work, and detailed musical analysis. The score serves as a reliable reference tool for professionals preparing roles, conservatory programs, or performance auditions, supporting a solid understanding of the operas musical architecture.

Full Song List

Als züllendes Kind * Auf wolkigen Hoh'n * Aus dem Wald fort * Da hast du die Stücken * Du holdes Vöglein * Erda! Ewiges Weib * Es sangen die Vöglein * Ewig war ich * Hei! Siegfried gehört * Heil dir, Sonne! * Lustig im Leid * Nothung! Neidliches Schwert! * O Heil der Mutter * Schmiede mein Hammer * Siegfried, Herrlicher! * Stark ruft das Lied * Wache, Wala! Erwach'! * Was ruht dort schlummernd * Zu Spreu nun schuf * Zwangvolle Plage!

In the third of Wagner's four Ring operas, we meet the loutish young hero, Siegfried, a muscular boor who knows no fear, and Mime, the dwarf who has reared him since the boy's mother, Sieglinde, died in childbirth. Mime is the brother of Alberich (the evil dwarf who set the events of the Ring in motion by stealing the gold of the Rhinemaidens and forging the eponymous ring of power), and extreme unpleasantness seems to be a family trait. Mime wants Siegfried to kill Fafner--the former giant turned dragon--to get his hoard, which includes the ring, after which he plans to poison the youth. Siegfried kills the dragon, but by inadvertently licking some of the beast's blood from his hand, finds he can discover the language of birds. An avian promptly advises him to watch out for Mime--and Siegfried discovers he can hear Mime's evil thoughts. Siegfried kills the dwarf, pockets the ring and the shape-shifting Tarnhelm, and goes off to Brunnhilde's mountaintop. There he breaks his grandfather Wotan's spear, marches through the flames, and wins himself a bride fit for a hero.

This translation beautifully captures Wagner's sometimes impenetrable poetry. The intent, says Rudolph Sabor, is "to provide the reader and singer with a libretto which does not sound like a translation, but rather like the text Wagner might have written had he been born not in Leipzig but in London." Sabor succeeds, and also provides the reader with other useful information, including suggested recordings, side notes on the action, and a key to the leitmotifs that are so essential to understanding the Ring operas.