Organization

Singer

Baritone

Frank Dolphin Wong

Wotan

Evgueniy Alexiev

Donner

Olaf Haye

Tenor

Liang-Hua Gong

Froh

Alexander Kaimbacher

Loge

Uwe Eikötter

Yoshiaki Kimura

Alberich

Lorin Wey

Mime

Bass

Moon Soo Park

Fasolt

Sebastian Pilgrim

Fafner

Mezzo-soprano

Sarah Kuffner

Fricka

Soprano

Melanie Kreuter

Freia

Contralto

Katja Starke

Erda

Nienke Otten

Woglinde

Hasti Molavian

Wellgunde

Nohad Becker

Flosshilde

Conductor

Alexander Kalajdzic

Stage director

Mizgin Bilmen

Set designer

Cleo Niemeyer

Costume designer

Alexander Djurkov Hotter

Video designer

Malte Jehmlich

Dramaturge

Jón Philipp von Linden

Theater Bielefeld

German

Das Rheingold -  (The Rhinegold)

Bielefeld

Germany

Stadttheater

Das Rheingold Wagner,Richard

The Rhinegold

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Alberich klaut den Rheintöchtern das Rheingold. Wotan klaut es Alberich, um damit die Götterburg Walhall zu bezahlen. Die Ursünde hat die Erde erschüttert, d...

Wotan ordered a new castle from the two giants, Fasolt and Fafner, but without securing the financing for this extensive building contract. Then the news of the missing Rheingold reached both gods and giants: the Nibelung Alberich not only succeeded in stealing the coveted precious metal from the bottom of the Rhine, but also in forging a ring from it which, according to old prophecy, gives him power over the whole world. After his erotic failure with the Rhine daughters, he is quite willing to pay the price for this – forgoing love and lust in the future. As a sort of function test for the ring, he first enslaves the Nibelungs, who from then on have to toil for him in the mines and mine gold.

What began with a planning error turns out to be a kind of original sin, which from then on shapes events like a bad omen. Wotan and his windy advisor Loge are able to snatch away the gold and ring from Alberich, but the betrayed Nibelung acknowledges this with a curse, which soon demands serious sacrifices.

Systems of power based on fabrications of lies bring to light behaviors and mechanisms that are both primal and destructive. In view of the current state of the world, we take the liberty of considering Wagner's Rheingold as an isolated cosmos. Only a few operas in the repertoire cultivated over generations have such timeless and appropriate links to our time as Richard Wagner's »Vorabend« to the Ring des Nibelungen , completed in 1854 .

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The Rhinegold by Wagner, Richard, From (2018/2018), Directed by Mizgin Bilmen,, Conductor Alexander Kalajdzic, Stadttheater, Bielefeld, Germany

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