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Wagner: Das Rheingold
Wagner: Das Rheingold

Wagner: Das Rheingold (1980)

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2h 23min
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This is a beautifully conducted and thoughtfully staged performance of the first opera (the prologue) in Wagner's Ring Cycle. As soon as the clouds of mist have dissipated, while the daring, long-held opening chord is still reverberating, the screen clears to show not only the River Rhine and the three maidens (dressed like prostitutes in this production) assigned to guard the gold hidden there. It also shows an enormous dam (not mentioned in Wagner's text). This is the underwater base of a hydroelectric plant, and its presence tells us two things immediately: that this production takes the story out of the vaguely medieval fantasy world in which Wagner had placed it, and that a basic theme of the four-opera cycle would be power. Alberich, the Nibelung, is willing to renounce the love of women, after stealing the gold from the Rhine, to become the ruler of the world. Another basic theme is greed.

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Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez

Self - Conductor

Donald McIntyre

Donald McIntyre

Wotan

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Martin Egel

Donner

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Siegfried Jerusalem

Froh

Heinz Zednik

Heinz Zednik

Loge

Hermann Becht

Hermann Becht

Alberich

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Helmut Pampuch

Mime

Matti Salminen

Matti Salminen

Fasolt

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Ilse Gramatzki

Wellgunde

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Fritz Hübner

Fafner

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Carmen Reppel

Freia

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Marga Schiml

Flosshilde

Hanna Schwarz

Hanna Schwarz

Fricka

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Norma Sharp

Woglinde

Ortrun Wenkel

Ortrun Wenkel

Erda

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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen - Boulez, Chéreau

Includes: Wagner: Das Rheingold, Wagner: Die Walküre, Wagner: Siegfried, Wagner: Götterdämmerung