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The Ring of the Nibelung: The Rhinegold

07/26/2016

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2hrs 25min

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Music

,Drama

,Fantasy

STORY

Frank Castorf’s staging of the Ring, premiered in 2013 and filmed in 2016, provoked controversy right from the beginning. For Castorf, the Rheingold of our days is oil; thus he places the first part of the tetralogy at a gas station on Route 66. Die Walküre is situated in Baku, Azerbaijan, which was seized by the Bolsheviks in 1920 for its oil, whereas Siegfried takes place in a socialist equivalent of Mount Rushmore and at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. Götterdämmerung is set somewhere in the GDR, ending up at New York’s stock exchange. Whilst Castorf’s staging polarized, Marek Janowski’s musical reading was unanimously praised, as was the excellent cast including in this opera Iain Paterson (Wotan), Nadine Weissmann (Erda), Albert Dohmen (Alberich) and Roberto Saccà (Loge).

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Iain Paterson
  • Markus Eiche
  • Tansel Akzeybek
  • Roberto Saccà
  • Sarah Connolly

    INFORMATION

      Production Companies

    • Bayreuther Festspiele
    • Deutsche Grammophon

      Production Countries

    • Germany

    LANGUAGES

    • German

    Cast

    Iain Paterson

    Wotan

    Markus Eiche

    Donner

    Tansel Akzeybek

    Froh

    Roberto Saccà

    Loge

    Sarah Connolly

    Fricka

    Caroline Wenborne

    Freia

    Nadine Weissmann

    Erda

    Albert Dohmen

    Alberich

    Andreas Conrad

    Mime

    Günther Groissböck

    Fasolt