Description
Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold
Product Details
- UPC: 807280135398
- Composer: Richard Wagner
- Opera: Das Rheingold
- Genre: Opera, Classical Music
- Language: German
- Label: Arthaus Musik
- Release date: Recorded live in 2008
Product Specifications
- Sound Format: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1
- Picture Format: 16:9
- Region Code: 0 (Worldwide), NTSC
- Subtitle Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish
- Run Time: 166 minutes
Overview
Experience Richard Wagner's captivating opera, Das Rheingold, performed live in a three-day festival by the Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar and the Staatstheater Thüringen. This production features a talented cast of singers, including Mario Hoff as Froh, Jean-Noël Briend as Wotan, and Alexander Günther as Donner. Conducted by Carl St. Clair and directed by Michael Schulz, this performance showcases beautiful set design and costumes, bringing Wagner's music to life in a visually stunning production.
Cast and Crew
- Froh: Mario Hoff
- Wotan: Jean-Noël Briend
- Donner: Alexander Günther
- Loge: Dirk Becker
- Alberich: Wolfgang Willaschek
- Mime: Renée Listerdal
- Fasolt: Tomas Möwes
- Fafner: Frieder Aurich
- Fricka: Renatus Mészár
- Freia: Hidekazu Tsumaya
- Erda: Christine Hansmann
- Woglinde: Susann Günther-Dissmeier
- Wellgunde: Marietta Zumbült
- Floßhilde: Nadine Weissmann
- Norns: Silona Michel, Christiane Bassek, Luise Grabolle, Marie-Louise Winde, Luisa Wöllner
- Staatskapelle Weimar
- Supernumeraries of the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar
- Conductor: Carl St. Clair
- Stage Director: Michael Schulz
- Set Design: Erika Krämer
- Costume Design: Johannes Martin
- Dramaturgy: Burkhard Wolf
- Directed for Television and Video: Brooks Riley
Interesting Facts
- Das Rheingold is the first of four operas in Richard Wagner's epic cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen.
- The opera is based on Norse mythology and follows the struggle for power and wealth between gods, giants, and dwarves.
- This production of Das Rheingold was performed as part of a three-day festival, offering audiences a unique and immersive experience.
