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His Wotan is a self-loathing head god who collapses, his entire body shaking, realizing the disasters are of his own doing.

After making his Seattle Opera debut in 1994 in “Lohengrin,” Grimsley’s repeat appearances as Wotan, one of the protagonists of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle, played an indispensable role in building Seattle Opera’s international reputation.

King of the gods, Wotan, sported dashing futuristic tribal dress.

How has his understanding of Wotan changed over the years?

Sounding gruff as Wotan — a role he shared last year with another singer — and acting with overkill, even by this staging’s standards, the bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny settled in as a meditative, wry Wanderer in “Siegfried.”