• Jul 26, 2016
  • 145 min
  • Full-HD

The Ring of the Nibelung: The Rhinegold (2016)

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).

Category
Country
Germany
Companies
Bayreuther Festspiele Deutsche Grammophon

Iain Paterson

Wotan

Markus Eiche

Donner

Tansel Akzeybek

Froh

Roberto Saccà

Loge

Sarah Connolly

Fricka

Caroline Wenborne

Freia

Nadine Weissmann

Erda

Albert Dohmen

Alberich

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