The Ring of the Nibelung: The Rhinegold

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).

Country:

Germany

Genre:

Music,

Drama,

Fantasy

Duration:

145 minutes

Year:

2016

Director:

Frank Castorf

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Company:

Bayreuther Festspiele,

Deutsche Grammophon

Cast:

Wotan

Donner

Froh

Loge

Fricka

Crew:

Music Director

Director

Production Design

Stage Director

Costume Design