Organization

Wagner in Budapest

Conductor

Adam Fischer

Stage director

Hartmut Schörghofer

Set designer

Costume designer

Corinna Crome

Lighting designer

Máté Vajda

Choreographer

Gábor Vida

Dramaturge

Christian Martin Fuchs

Christian Baier

Singer

Baritone

Tomasz Konieczny

Wotan

Egils Silins

Zsolt Haja

Donner

Tenor

Szabolcs Brickner

Froh

Christian Franz

Loge

Mezzo-soprano

Atala Schöck

Fricka

Soprano

Lilla Horti

Freia

Contralto

Nadine Weissmann

Erda

Bass

Walter Fink

Fafner

Sorin Coliban

Fasolt

Krisztián Cser

Jochen Schmeckenbecher

Alberich

Cornel Frey

Mime

Orsolya Sáfár

Woglinde

Gabriella Fodor

Wellgunde

Zsófia Kálnay

Flosshilde

Müpa Budapest

German

Das Rheingold

Budapest

Hungary

Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Public

The Rhinegold

Hungarian

English

Approved

Das Rheingold is the introduction to the storyline, depicting the central conflict. Starting from a primeval state of peace, the opera shows how the original sin was committed, triggering a chain of events that eventually lead to complete annihilation. One senses that the myth is not really about gods, giants and dwarfs, but rather about ourselves: the playful and frightening tale depicts not a world that never existed, but rather the one we live in. Ádám Fischer's concept is for the "most important objective of the Budapest Wagner Days festival to develop a performance style that is in line with Wagner's original ideas. The most important thing for him were dramatic expression and intense enunciation: it was not singing in the traditional sense of the word that he demanded of his performers on stage, but rather sprechgesang, meaning sung speech. With this vocal style and the concept of the gesamtkunstwerk, the unity in total art of the text, the music and the action on stage, he created a new genre. We endeavour to make our performances fulfil Wagner's vision to the greatest degree possible." Featured in this year's Das Rheingold will be two wonderful bass-baritones - Poland's Tomasz Konieczny and, in the second cast, the Latvian Egils Silins - portraying Wotan, old favourite Christian Franz as Loge and Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Walter Fink and Sorin Coliban or Krisztián Cser in the roles of Alberich, Fafner and Fasolt, respectively.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew