The Ring of the Nibelung: The Rhinegold

Synopsis

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).

Main Cast

Iain Paterson

Wotan

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Markus Eiche

Donner

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Tansel Akzeybek

Froh

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Roberto Saccà

Loge

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Sarah Connolly

Fricka

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Caroline Wenborne

Freia

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Nadine Weissmann

Erda

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Albert Dohmen

Alberich

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Adriana Braga Peretzki
Directing	Stage Director	Frank Castorf
	Director	Frank Castorf
Lighting	Lighting Design	Rainer Casper
Writing	Writer	Richard Wagner
Sound	Music Director	Marek Janowski
Art	Production Design	Aleksandar Denić
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