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prologue to Der Ring des Nibelungen : music drama in four scenes
Deutsches Nationaltheater (Weimar, Thuringia, Germany)
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.
by Richard Wagner ; Arthaus Musik presents, from the Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar.
Title from resource description page (viewed November 13, 2015).
Mario Hoff (Wotan) ; Alexander Günther (Donner) ; Jean-Noël Briend (Froh) ; Erin Caves (Loge) ; Tomas Möwes (Alberich) ; Frieder Aurich (Mime) ; Renatus Mészár (Fasolt) ; Hidekazu Tsumaya (Fafner) ; Christine Hansmann (Fricka) ; Marietta Zumbült (Freia) ; Nadine Weissmann (Erda) ; Silona Michel (Woglinde) ; Susann Günther-Dissmeier (Wellgunde) ; Christiane Bassek (Flosshilde) ; Luise Grabolle, Marie-Louise Winde, Luisa Wöllner (Norns) ; Staatskapelle Weimar ; Carl St. Clair, conductor.
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.