Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold

Outside Germany, the name Weimar usually evokes mixed feelings and images from Germany's history over the last hundred years. In Germany, Weimar refers to a city in the state of Thuringia, steeped in German culture known as “Weimarer Klassik,” the legendary Bauhaus, and ultimately the lives and works of Franz Liszt and his son-in-law Richard Wagner. It was in Weimar that Richard Wagner began composing the first part of his Ring tetralogy, Das Rheingold. In 2008, the Weimar Nationaltheater launched a new production of this unique tetralogy. The conductor is Carl St.Clair, a former student of Leonard Bernstein. Thanks to Michael Schulz's fine and intelligent direction, this new Ring production on DVD and Blu-Ray is an excellent document of contemporary opera theater.

Artists

Mario Hoff (Wotan), Alexander Gunther (Donner), Jean-Noel Briend (Froh), Erin Caves (Loge), Tomas Mowes (Alberich), Frieder Aurich (Mime), Renatus Meszar (Fasolt), Hidekazu Tsumaya (Fafner), Christine Hansmann (Fricka), Marietta Zumbult (Freia), Nadine Weissmann (Erda), Silone Michel (Woglinde), Susann Gunther-Dissmeier (Wellgunde), Christine Bassek (Flosshilde)