The Ring of the Nibelung: The Rhinegold

The Ring of the Nibelung: The Rhinegold by Frank Castorf

8.20

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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Cast

Iain Paterson

Iain Paterson as Wotan

Markus Eiche

Markus Eiche as Donner

Tansel Akzeybek

Tansel Akzeybek as Froh

Roberto Saccà

Roberto Saccà as Loge

Sarah Connolly

Sarah Connolly as Fricka

Caroline Wenborne

Caroline Wenborne as Freia

Nadine Weissmann

Nadine Weissmann as Erda

Albert Dohmen

Albert Dohmen as Alberich

Andreas Conrad

Andreas Conrad as Mime

Günther Groissböck

Günther Groissböck as Fasolt

Karl-Heinz Lehner

Karl-Heinz Lehner as Fafner

Alexandra Steiner

Alexandra Steiner as Woglinde

Stephanie Houtzeel

Stephanie Houtzeel as Wellgunde

Wiebke Lehmkuhl

Wiebke Lehmkuhl as Floßhilde

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