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The Ring of the Nibelung: The Rhinegold (2016)

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).
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Frank Castorf profile
Frank Castorf

Director

Cast

Iain Paterson profile
Iain Paterson

Wotan

Markus Eiche profile
Markus Eiche

Donner

Tansel Akzeybek profile
Tansel Akzeybek

Froh

Roberto Saccà profile
Roberto Saccà

Loge

Sarah Connolly profile
Sarah Connolly

Fricka

Caroline Wenborne profile
Caroline Wenborne

Freia

Nadine Weissmann profile
Nadine Weissmann

Erda

Albert Dohmen profile
Albert Dohmen

Alberich

Andreas Conrad profile
Andreas Conrad

Mime

Günther Groissböck profile
Günther Groissböck

Fasolt

Karl-Heinz Lehner profile
Karl-Heinz Lehner

Fafner

Alexandra Steiner profile
Alexandra Steiner

Woglinde

Iain Paterson profile
Iain Paterson

Wotan

Markus Eiche profile
Markus Eiche

Donner

Tansel Akzeybek profile
Tansel Akzeybek

Froh

Roberto Saccà profile
Roberto Saccà

Loge

Sarah Connolly profile
Sarah Connolly

Fricka

Caroline Wenborne profile
Caroline Wenborne

Freia

Nadine Weissmann profile
Nadine Weissmann

Erda

Albert Dohmen profile
Albert Dohmen

Alberich

Andreas Conrad profile
Andreas Conrad

Mime

Günther Groissböck profile
Günther Groissböck

Fasolt

Karl-Heinz Lehner profile
Karl-Heinz Lehner

Fafner

Alexandra Steiner profile
Alexandra Steiner

Woglinde

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Release Date

July 26, 2016

Original Language

German

Budget

$0.00

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