Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold
- Product Code: 108090
Soloists:
René Pape, Stephan Rügamer, Doris Soffel
Orchestra, choir:
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Conductor:
Daniel Barenboim
Director:
Guy Cassiers
La Scala's Rheingold in May 2010 marked the beginning of Guy Cassiers' Ring cycle and brought a completely new paradigm to this work. While Patrice Chéreau focused on historical analysis of the years 1870–1930 in Germany, Guy Cassiers' Ring tetralogy proceeds "from the present moment; it is set in the 'present moment', Jetztzeit (Walter Benjamin), and places our present and future in a context inherited from history, with its promises and curses... Cassiers' Ring shows how the globalized year 2010 continues to develop the vocabulary created by Wagner in 1870." (Michael Steinberg) Starring opera stars such as René Pape, Stephan Rügamer, Johannes Martin Kränzle, and Anna Larsson, and conducted by Daniel Barenboim, "Rheingold" is sure to captivate its audience.
