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Baritone

Guido Jentjens

Wotan

Hinrich Horn

Donner

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Roberto Ortiz

Froh

James Kee

Loge

Kosma Ranuer Kroon

Alberich

James Allen Smith

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Mathew Habib

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Ihor Tsarkov

Fasolt

Michael Tews

Fafner

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Katharina von Bülow

Fricka

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Silke Evers

Freia

Contralto

Sandra Fechner

Erda

Akiho Tsujii

Woglinde

Marzia Marzo

Wellgunde

Hiroe Ito

Flosshilde

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Enrico Calesso

Stage director

Dirk Schmeding

Set designer

Pascal Seibicke

Dramaturge

Berthold Warnecke

Mainfranken Theater Würzburg

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Das Rheingold -  (The Rhinegold)

Würzburg

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Das Rheingold Wagner,Richard

The Rhinegold

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Alberich comes up from the depths of the earth to the three daughters of the Rhine; all jestingly and teasingly despise the leprechaun. Then the Rheingold begins to shine; it appeals to Alberich. The girls mean that it serves them for pleasure and play: but he who knows how to force it into a ring can work many miracles with it, gain power and might, wealth and dominion through gold: but only he who renounces love, understand that! They laugh at him again. Then the Nibelung gets angry: he renounces love, robs the gold and kidnaps it into the depths..." (Richard Wagner, 1851)

In 1848 Wagner presented the draft “The Nibelung Myth”. After further preparatory work on the "Ring des Nibelungen" he told Franz Liszt: "I have to communicate my entire myth, according to its deepest and broadest meaning, with the greatest artistic clarity, in order to be fully understood." Starting from "Siegfried's death" he went through In this way, the myth went back to its beginnings and in 1852 it was preceded by a "great prelude": "The robbery of the Rhine gold". In the following year he tackled the composition of the "Rheingold". With "Rheingold", the Mainfranken Theater is continuing its "Ring" project, again emphasizing the independence of the individual dramas, "which should form completely independent pieces" (Wagner).

The realization of this production is possible thanks to the generous support of the Richard-Wagner-Verband Würzburg-Unterfranken eV

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The Rhinegold by Wagner, Richard, From (2020/2020), Directed by Dirk Schmeding,, Conductor Enrico Calesso, Mainfranken Theater, Würzburg, Germany

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