Das Rheingold : prologue to Der Ring des Nibelungen : music drama in four scenes /

Outside Germany, the name Weimar tends to evoke mixed feelings and pictures of German history of the last hundred years. Within Germany, Weimar means a town in the state of Thuringia arguably saturated with the "Deutsche Kultur" of the "Weimarer Klassik", the legendary Bauhaus, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 (Composer, Librettist)
Corporate Authors:	Staatskapelle Weimar (Instrumentalist), Deutsches Nationaltheater (Weimar, Thuringia, Germany) (Performer)
Other Authors:	Hoff, Mario, 1959- (Singer), Günther, Alexander, 1965- (Singer), Briend, Jean-Noël (Singer), Caves, Erin (Singer), Möwes, Tomas, 1951- (Singer), Aurich, Frieder (Singer), Mészár, Renatus, 1966- (Singer), Tsumaya, Hidekazu, 1964- (Singer), Hansmann, Christine, 1961- (Singer), Zumbült, Marietta (Singer), Weissmann, Nadine, 1974- (Singer), Michel, Silona (Singer), Günther-Dissmeier, Susann (Singer), Bassek, Christiane (Singer), St. Clair, Carl (Conductor)
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In German and English.
Published:	Halle, Germany : ArtHaus Musik, 2009.
Subjects:	Operas. Streaming videos. Feature films. Nonfiction films. Films autres que de fiction.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)

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Summary:	Outside Germany, the name Weimar tends to evoke mixed feelings and pictures of German history of the last hundred years. Within Germany, Weimar means a town in the state of Thuringia arguably saturated with the "Deutsche Kultur" of the "Weimarer Klassik", the legendary Bauhaus, and finally the life and work of Franz Liszt and his son in law Richard Wagner. In Weimar Richard Wagner began composing the first part of his RING-cycle, "Das Rheingold". In 2008 the Nationaltheater Weimar started a new production of this unique tetralogy. The conductor is Carl St. Clair, a former student of Leonard Bernstein. With Michael Schulz' fine and highly intelligent staging this new "Ring" productiion becomes an outstanding document of contemporary opera theatre.
Item Description:	Title from resource description page (viewed November 13, 2015).
Physical Description:	1 online resource (167 min.)
Playing Time:	02:46:06
Production Credits:	Stage director Michael Schulz ; set design, Dirk Becker ; costume design, Renée Listerdal; lighting design, Alexander Gnadl ; dramaturgy, Wolfgang Willaschek; directed for TV and video, Brooks Riley; a production of RM Arts and Zoom Production.