The Ring of the Nibelung: The Rhinegold

The Ring of the Nibelung: The Rhinegold

2016/07/26 • Released • German

Music
Drama
Fantasy
8.2
2h 25m

Overview

Frank Castorf’s staging of the Ring, premiered in 2013 and filmed in 2016, provoked controversy right from the beginning. For Castorf, the Rheingold of our days is oil; thus he places the first part of the tetralogy at a gas station on Route 66. Die Walküre is situated in Baku, Azerbaijan, which was seized by the Bolsheviks in 1920 for its oil, whereas Siegfried takes place in a socialist equivalent of Mount Rushmore and at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. Götterdämmerung is set somewhere in the GDR, ending up at New York’s stock exchange. Whilst Castorf’s staging polarized, Marek Janowski’s musical reading was unanimously praised, as was the excellent cast including in this opera Iain Paterson (Wotan), Nadine Weissmann (Erda), Albert Dohmen (Alberich) and Roberto Saccà (Loge).

Director : Frank Castorf

Casts

Iain Paterson

Wotan

Markus Eiche

Donner

Tansel Akzeybek

Froh

Roberto Saccà

Loge

Sarah Connolly

Sarah Connolly

Fricka

Caroline Wenborne

Freia

Nadine Weissmann

Erda

Albert Dohmen

Albert Dohmen

Alberich

Andreas Conrad

Mime

Günther Groissböck

Günther Groissböck

Fasolt

Karl-Heinz Lehner

Fafner

Alexandra Steiner

Woglinde

Stephanie Houtzeel

Wellgunde

Wiebke Lehmkuhl

Floßhilde

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