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Jukka Rasilainen

Wotan

Wanderer

Stefan Heibach

Loge

Andrew Shore

Alberich

Kevin Conners

Mime

Gary Jankowski

Fafner

Sonja Mühleck

Freia

Gerhilde

Silja Schindler

Woglinde

Ortlinde

Waldvogel

Bernadett Fodor

Flosshilde

Schwertleite

Torsten Kerl

Siegmund

Marion Ammann

Sieglinde

Linda Watson

Brunnhilde

Simone Schröder

Fricka

Daniel Sumegi

Hunding

Hagen

Sabine Hogrefe

Helmwige

Gutrune

Susanne Geb

Waltraute

Manuela Bress

Roßweiße

Uta Christina Georg

Grimgerde

Wellgrunde

Leonid Zakhozhaev

Siegfried

Conductor

Roberto Paternostro

Stage director

Valentina Carrasco

Set designer

Frank Philipp Schlößmann

Lighting designer

Peter van Praet

Costume designer

Nídia Tusal

Chorus master

Peter Burian

Assistant Stage Director

Alejandro Stadler

Teatro Colón

Others

Choir of the Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires

Orchestra

Orquesta Académica del Teatro Colón

Colón-Ring

Buenos Aires

Argentina

It was an ambitious project: staging Richard Wagner's powerful music drama, the Ring Cycle, in a single day. To honor Richard Wagner's 200th birthday in 2012, Latin America's famous opera house, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, hosted this one-of-a-kind production with abridged versions of the individual operas cut down to seven hours. The documentary film "The Colón Ring - Wagner in Buenos Aires," directed by Hans Christoph von Bock, follows each step of this challenging project. Those steps include considerable behind-the-scenes drama - itself worthy of a Wagnerian opera - that accompanied the production. Original director Katharina Wagner quit,  as well as the original conductor and some of the cast, and it looked as if the production was doomed. But the film shows how the new director, Valentina Carrasco, got things back on track, allowing Wagner's vision of "The Ring of the Nibelung" to emerge as a Gesamtkunstwerk and an all-encompassing live theater experience.

Colón-Ring: Der Ring an einem Abend Wagner,Richard

Public

The Ring in One Evening

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading