Das Rheingold

The story

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.

Cast & crew

James MorrisWotan

Siegfried JerusalemLoge

Ekkehard Wlaschiha

Ekkehard WlaschihaAlberich

Christa LudwigFricka

MariAnne Häggander

MariAnne HägganderFreia

Mark BakerFroh

Alan Held

Alan HeldDonner

Jan-Hendrik Rootering

Jan-Hendrik RooteringFasolt

Matti SalminenFafner

Heinz ZednikMime

Birgitta Svendén

Birgitta SvendénErda

Kaaren Erickson

Kaaren EricksonWoglinde