Das Rheingold
- Released on
- Runtime
- 163 mins
From the gorgeous scene deep in the river Rhine that opens the opera, up to the magic Rainbow Bridge that appears at the end, leading to a glistening Valhalla, Otto Schenk’s production captures the scenic world of Wagner’s Ring as brilliantly as James Levine and the Met orchestra capture the musical world. The cast is incomporable: an astounding James Morris as the young god Wotan, the great Christa Ludwig as his wife Fricka, incandescent Siegfried Jerusalem as Loge, the wily god of fire, and Ekkehard Wlaschiha as a complex Alberich.
From the gorgeous scene deep in the river Rhine that opens the opera, up to the magic Rainbow Bridge that appears at the end, leading to a glistening Valhalla, Otto Schenk’s production captures the scenic world of Wagner’s Ring as brilliantly as James Levine and the Met orchestra capture the musical world. The cast is incomporable: an astounding James Morris as the young god Wotan, the great Christa Ludwig as his wife Fricka, incandescent Siegfried Jerusalem as Loge, the wily god of fire, and Ekkehard Wlaschiha as a complex Alberich.
Cast
- James Morris
- Siegfried Jerusalem
- Ekkehard Wlaschiha
- Christa Ludwig
- MariAnne Häggander
- Mark Baker
- Alan Held
- Jan-Hendrik Rootering
- Matti Salminen
- Heinz Zednik
- Birgitta Svendén
- Kaaren Erickson
- Diane Kesling
- Meredith Parsons
- James Levine
- MET Orchestra
Director
- Brian Large