145 minutos
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).
Iain Paterson
Wotan
Markus Eiche
Donner
Tansel Akzeybek
Froh
Roberto Saccà
Loge
Sarah Connolly
Fricka
Caroline Wenborne
Freia
Nadine Weissmann
Erda
Albert Dohmen
Alberich
Andreas Conrad
Mime
Günther Groissböck
Fasolt
Karl-Heinz Lehner
Fafner
Alexandra Steiner
Woglinde
Stephanie Houtzeel
Wellgunde
Wiebke Lehmkuhl
Floßhilde
