Das Rheingold

From the gorgeous scene deep in the river Rhine that opens the opera, up to the magic Rainbow Bridge that appears at the end, leading to a glistening Valhalla, Otto Schenk’s production captures the scenic world of Wagner’s Ring as brilliantly as James Levine and the Met orchestra capture the musical world. The cast is incomporable: an astounding James Morris as the young god Wotan, the great Christa Ludwig as his wife Fricka, incandescent Siegfried Jerusalem as Loge, the wily god of fire, and Ekkehard Wlaschiha as a complex Alberich.

• Richard WagnerWriter
• Brian LargeDirector
• Richard WagnerOriginal Music Composer
• Otto SchenkDirector

• James MorrisWotan
• Siegfried JerusalemLoge
• Ekkehard WlaschihaAlberich
• Christa LudwigFricka
• MariAnne HägganderFreia
• Mark BakerFroh
• Alan HeldDonner
• Jan-Hendrik RooteringFasolt
• Matti SalminenFafner
• Heinz ZednikMime
• Birgitta SvendénErda
• Kaaren EricksonWoglinde