Das Rheingold (1990)

US:: PG-13 Fantasy Music

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.

Updated May 28 2020

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1990-04-23

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FACTS

Runtime: 163 mins Rating: 6.0

Cast

James Morris

Wotan

Birgitta Svendén

Erda

Siegfried Jerusalem

Loge

Christa Ludwig

Fricka

Heinz Zednik

Mime

Mark Baker

Froh

Kaaren Erickson

Woglinde

Matti Salminen

Fafner