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).
Year: 2016
Studio: Bayreuther Festspiele, Deutsche Grammophon
Director: Frank Castorf
Cast: Iain Paterson, Markus Eiche, Tansel Akzeybek, Roberto Saccà, Sarah Connolly, Caroline Wenborne
Crew: Marek Janowski (Music Director), Frank Castorf (Stage Director), Frank Castorf (Director), Rainer Casper (Lighting Design), Aleksandar Denić (Production Design), Richard Wagner (Writer)
Runtime: 145 minutes
Release: Jul 26, 2016
IMDb: 8.20/10 by 2 users
Popularity: 0
Country: Germany
Language: Deutsch
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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