The Ring of the Nibelung: The Rhinegold
Frank Castorf revolutionised German-language theatre in the post-Berlin Wall era, bringing to the stage intellectual and political acuteness, brash references and a not infrequent use of crude humour. He brought these qualities to the Bayreuth Festival where his production of the Ring ran from 2013 to 2017. This 2016 recording of Das Rheingold captures Marek Janowski's festival debut as conductor of this unique production, in which Castorf replaces the Rheingold with oil as the central commodity in a pre-capitalist society. The first night of the Ring cycle begins at a gas station off of Route 66, the main road connecting the East and West coasts of the USA, that played an important role in commerce in the 1920s.
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Cast
Iain Paterson
Wotan
Markus Eiche
Donner
Tansel Akzeybek
Froh
Roberto Saccà
Loge
Sarah Connolly
Fricka
Caroline Wenborne
Freia
Nadine Weissmann
Erda
Albert Dohmen
Alberich
Andreas Conrad
Mime
Günther Groissböck
Fasolt
Karl-Heinz Lehner
Fafner
Alexandra Steiner
Woglinde
Stephanie Houtzeel
Wellgunde
Wiebke Lehmkuhl
Floßhilde
