Wagner: Das Rheingold

Wagner: Das Rheingold (2013)

Music

The La Scala Rheingold in May 2010 inaugurated Guy Cassiers Ring-Cycle and introduces a completely new paradigm to this work. While before him Patrice Chéreau had laid his focus on a historical analysis from 1870 to 1930 Germany, Guy Cassiers’ Ring unfolds “from our own present-day moment; it [takes] place in ‘the now’, the Jetztzeit (Walter Benjamin), placing our present and our future into the context of the promises and curses that we have inherited from history … The Cassiers Ring shows how the globalized moment of 2010 continues to build on the Wagnerian vocabularies of 1870.” (Michael Steinberg) Cast with a number of opera stars like René Pape, Stephan Rügamer, Johannes Martin Kränzle and Anna Larsson and conducted by Daniel Barenboim, this Rheingold is bound to put the audience under its spell.

Director: Guy Cassiers

Casts

	René Pape as Wotan
	Stephan Rügamer as Loge
	Johannes Martin Kränzle as Alberich
	Doris Soffel as Fricka
	Kwangchul Youn as Fasolt
	Timo Riihonen as Fafner
	Anna Samuil as Freia
	Anna Larsson as Erda
	Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke as Mime
	Aga Mikolaj as Woglinde
	Maria Gortsevskaya as Wellgunde
	Marina Prudenskaya as Flosshilde

Crew