Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen | Das Rheingold (MET 1990)

Composer: Richard Wagner (1813-1883).
Conductor: James Levine
Stage Production: Otto Schenk
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus.
Audio: German (English subtitles hardcoded)

Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is a cycle of four epic operas (or "dramas" to use the composer's preferred term) by the German composer Richard Wagner (1813-83). The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the Nibelungenlied. The four dramas, which the composer described as a trilogy with a Vorabend ("preliminary evening"), are often referred to as the Ring Cycle, Wagner's Ring, or simply the Ring. Wagner wrote the libretto and music over the course of about twenty-six years, from 1848 to 1874. The four operas that constitute the Ring cycle are, in sequence:

1. Das Rheingold
2. Die Walküre
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3. Siegfried
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4. Götterdammerung
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Das Rheingold ('The Rhine Gold') is the first of the four operas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen ('The Ring of the Nibelung'). It was originally written as an introduction to the tripartite Ring, but the cycle is now generally regarded as consisting of four individual operas.

Das Rheingold Synopsis: https://www.opera-arias.com/wagner/das-rheingold/synopsis/

ONE AND ONLY ACT: Place of Action
Scene 1: At the bottom of the Rhine
Scene 2: An open space on the mountain tops
Scene 3: Nibelheim, the home of the dwarfs, deep under the earth
Scene 4: The same as Scene 2, except that all is hidden by mist

Cast & Crew:
Wotan - James Morris
Donner - Alan Held
Froh Mark - Baker
Loge - Siegfried Jerusalem
Alberich - Ekkehard Wlaschiha
Mime Heinz - Zednik
Fasolt - Jan-Hendrik Rootering
Fafner - Matti Salminen
Fricka - Christa Ludwig
Freia - MariAnne Häggander
Erda - Birgitta Svendén
Woglinde - Kaaren Erickson
Wellgunde - Diane Kesling
Flosshilde - Meredith Parsons

Filmed March/April, 1990
Set and Projection Designer: Günther Schneider-Siemssen
Costume Designer: Rolf Langenfass
Lighting Designer: Gil Wechsler
Video director: Brian Large