Bravi for "Das Rheingold"

The remaining months of the 2011/12 season at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich will be dedicated to Richard Wagner’s opus magnum Der Ring des Nibelungen. The first installment, Das Rheingold had its premiere on February 4, 2012 in a new production by the acclaimed theatre director Andreas Kriegenburg. Within the time period of five months the Bavarian State Opera will mount the „greatest challenge for every Opera house“(General Manager Nikolaus Bachler) and celebrate Wagner even before his upcoming 200th birthday in 2013.

The Bavarian State orchestra is led by General Music Director Kent Nagano in his first full Ring ever. The cast in Das Rheingold includes the Danish Bass-baritone Johan Reuter as Wotan in his House debut, Mezzo Sophie Koch as Fricka, Wolfgang Koch as Alberich, Stefan Margita as Loge and Aga Mikolaj as Freia.

Kent Nagano: "Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen is a unique work of art, as everyone knows. Its weight in terms of content as a drama and a tragedy and the challenge it contains for its recipients, for the audience, is matched by the enormous amount of work demanded of everyone involved. Everything is of central importance about and in this work, which is actually unique in the history of culture, and its productions and performances are also always accompanied and followed with particular attention and in-depth discussions."


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Richard Wagner
Das Rheingold
Wednesday, 8 February 2012, 7.30 p.m.
Sunday, 12 February 2012, 4.00 p.m.
Nationaltheater

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