Das Rheingold : M.Schulz, C.St.Clair / Staatskapelle Weimar, M.Hoff, Gunther, etc (2008 Stereo)

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Richard Wagner: DAS RHEINGOLD

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

Staaskapelle Weimar
Carl St. Clair, conductor

Michael Schulz, stage director
Dirk Becker, set designer
Renee Listerdal, costume designer

Recorded live from the Deutsches Nationaltheater, Weimar, 2008.

1080i Full-HD
Running time: 166 mins

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 finally the life and work of Franz Liszt and his son in law Richard Wagner. In Weimar Richard Wagner began composing the first 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’ fine and highly intelligent staging this new "Ring" production on DVD and Blu-Ray becomes an outstanding document of contemporary opera theatre. ( ARTHAUS MUSIK )