Wagner - Das Rheingold (Arthaus Musik)

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A production of the Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar, Staatstheater Thüringen, live recording 2008

Actors:
Wotan - Mario Hoff
Donner - Alexander Günther
Froh - Jean-Noel Briend
Loge - Erin Caves
Alberich - Tomas Möwes
Mime - Frieder Aurich
Fasolt - Renatus Mészár
Fafner - Hidekazu Tsumaya
Fricka - Christine Hansmann
Freia - Marietta Zumbült
Erda - Nadine Weissmann
Woglinde - Silona Michel
Wellgunde - Susann Günther-Dissmeier
Flosshilde - Christiane Bassek

Music: Staatskapelle Weimar
Conductor: Carl St.Clair

Outside Germany, the name Weimar tends to evoke mixed feelings and pictures of German history of the last hundred years. Within Germany, Weimar means a town in the state of Thuringia arguably saturated with the Deutsche Kultur of the Weimarer Klassik, the legendary Bauhaus, and fi nally the life and work of Franz Liszt and his son in law Richard Wagner. In Weimar Richard Wagner began composing the fi rst part of his RING-cycle, Das Rheingold.
In 2008 the Nationaltheater Weimar started a new production of this unique tetralogy. The conductor is Carl St.Clair, a former student of Leonard Bernstein. With Michael Schulz fi ne and highly intelligent staging this new Ring production on DVD and Blu-Ray becomes an outstanding document of contemporary opera theatre.