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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Iain Paterson as Wotan
Markus Eiche as Donner
Tansel Akzeybek as Froh
Roberto Saccà as Loge
Sarah Connolly as Fricka
Caroline Wenborne as Freia
Nadine Weissmann as Erda
Albert Dohmen as Alberich
Andreas Conrad as Mime
Günther Groissböck as Fasolt
Karl-Heinz Lehner as Fafner
Alexandra Steiner as Woglinde
Stephanie Houtzeel as Wellgunde
Wiebke Lehmkuhl as Floßhilde
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