James Rutherford:Litton - Rutherford Sings Wagner

Winner of the first Seattle Opera International Wagner competition in 2006, James Rutherford has since performed in a number of Wagner productions, and is something of the Hans Sachs of our day, having sung the part at the Bayreuth Festival (in 2010 and 2011), as well as at the Wiener Staatsoper, the Graz, Hamburg and Cologne Operas, the Budapest Wagner Festival and at the Glyndebourne Festival.Rutherford is accompanied by Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under their music director Andrew Litton, himself a regular guest conductor at leading opera houses such as the Met, the Royal Opera House and Deutsche Oper Berlin.