Richard Wagner
Libretto by Richard Wagner
Eve of "Der Ring des Nibelungen"
The unsullied enchantment of E-flat major harmonies in the initial bars of
Das Rheingold doesn’t last very long. Instead, a world comes into being; a world that fifteen hours of music later will be unable to stave off its own downfall. In this world, nature is violated, and laws are ignored. Greed, power and malediction are the order of the day. Alberich steals the gold from the Rhine Maidens, enslaves his workers and revels in the sweet smell of world domination. Wotan claims it for himself and joins forces with Loge to make off with the ring, the gold and the magic helmet. His construction project is envisioned as the foundation of existence for his family of gods – his wife objects. He must part with the accursed ring as payment to the two giants. Seething with envy, one giant murders the other. The glow of the gods’ castle first gleams after the tempest, but Loge sees the castle already headed for ruin. The threads of the tale get tangled in this eve of the tetralogy, the water loses its sheen, and the clouds are shrouded in darkness.
In German with German surtitles
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Casts
Conductor
Kent Nagano
Production
Andreas Kriegenburg
Set
Harald B. Thor
Costumes
Andrea Schraad
Lighting
Stefan Bolliger
Choreography
Zenta Haerter
Dramaturgy
Marion Tiedtke 13. July 2013
Miron Hakenbeck 13. July 2013
Wotan
Johan Reuter
Donner
Levente Molnár
Froh
Sergey Skorokhodov
Loge
Stefan Margita
Alberich
Tomasz Konieczny
Mime
Ulrich Reß
Fasolt
Thorsten Grümbel
Fafner
Steven Humes
Fricka
Sophie Koch
Freia
Aga Mikolaj
Erda
Catherine Wyn-Rogers
Woglinde
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller
Wellgunde
Angela Brower
Floßhilde
Okka von der Damerau
The Bavarian State Orchestra
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