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Mezzo-soprano

Michaela Schuster

Fricka

Soprano

Helga Rós Indridadóttir

Freia

Catriona Smith

Woglinde

Maria Theresa Ullrich

Wellgunde

Baritone

Wolfgang Probst

Wotan

Motti Kastón

Donner

Tenor

Bernhard Schneider

Froh

Robert Künzli

Loge

Esa Ruuttunen

Alberich

Conductor

Lothar Zagrosek

Stage director

Joachim Schloemer

Set designer

Jens Kilian

Lighting designer

David Finn

Contralto

Mette Ejsing

Erda

Bass

Phillip Ens

Fafner

Roland Bracht

Fasolt

Eberhard Francesco Lorenz

Mime

Margarete Joswig

Flosshilde

Costume designer

Dramaturge

Klaus Zehelein

Sergio Morabito

Orchestra

Staatsorchesters Stuttgart

Staatsoper Stuttgart

Das Rheingold -  (The Rhinegold)

Stuttgart

Germany

Opernhaus

Der Ring des Nibelungen: Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner, from Staatsoper Stuttgart, 2002. Directed by János Darvas and Thorsten Fricke, conductor Lothar Zagrosek. Starring Wolfgang Probst, Motti Kastón, Bernhard Schneider, Robert Künzli, Esa Ruuttunen, Eberhard Francesco Lorenz, Roland Bracht.

From the Staatsoper Stuttgart,
The Ring of the Nibelung: The Rhinegold
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𝗚𝗼𝗱𝘀 Bernhard Schneider - happy Robert Künzli - Loge Motti Kastón - Donner Wolfgang Probst - Wotan 𝗚𝗼𝗱𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 Michaela Schuster - Fricka Helga Rós Indridadóttir - Freia Mette Ejsing - Erda 𝗡𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗴𝘀 Esa Ruutun Catriona Smith - Woglinde Maria Theresa Ullrich - Wellgunde Margarete Joswig - Flosshilde Staatsorchester Stuttgart Staatsoper Stuttgart Lothar Zagrosek - conductor Richard Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen: Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold)
0:00 Credits
2:38Prelude
7:00 Scenes

Das Rheingold is the prologue to Wagner's Ring cycle, and opens up the rich world of gods, dwarves, giants, dragons and humans that the story inhabits. With beautiful orchestration and an unerring sense of the dramatic, the first opera explains how the Rhinedaughters came to lose the Ring and how it fel into the hands of Alberich the Nibelung; Wotan, king of the gods; and Fafner the giant. Each time it changes hands, the Ring confers upon the bearer a curse and this pattern is set to continue until it is restored to its rightful owners, the daughters of the Rhine.

Performed at the Opera of Stuttgart, The Rhinegold abandons Wagnerian mythology to the benefit of an unsettling tale in camera.

"Four operas, four directors." It was as a response to this original artistic idea that Wagner's Tetralogy was produced in 1999-2000 on the stage of the Stuttgart Opera under the direction of the Austrian conductor Lothar Zagrosek and later filmed in 2002-2003. The Rhinegold (the Prologue) was entrusted to Joachim Schlömer, The Valkyries to Christof Nel, Siegfried to Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito, and lastly the last day of the Ring, the Twilight of the Gods to Perter Konwitschny.

Joachim Schlömer, to whom the responsibility fell of opening the cycle, was trained as a dancer and choreographer in Germany where he was born. He has premiered a hundred ballets while also dedicating himself to directing performances since the nineties.

Nonconformist and original this Tetralogy was a sensation. From its prologue, The Rhinegold, the audience in Stuttgart must have been captivated by this intimist and modern approach which totally abandons mythological imagery. Everyone, from Wotan to Fafner, the maids of the Rhine to Alberich and Loge, is dressed in thirties-style costumes and the scenery, a spa in the art deco style (the Rhine is the basin…), is the same during the entire work.
Thus presented The Rhinegold is treated like a story in camera where the psychologically ravaged characters expend themselves in deadly rivalries. The singers, whose artistry is perfectly matched, blend perfectly into the dramaturgy, while at the rostrum Lothar Zagrosek delivers a contrasted and explosive version while retaining splendid fluidity.

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