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Wagner - Das Rheingold | Deutsche Grammophon 0734390

Wagner - Das Rheingold

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Cat No: 0734390

Barcode: 0044007343906

Format: DVD - NTSC

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 4th February 2008

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Penguin Guide 4 stars

Contents

Artists

Jeannine Altmeyer
Brigitte Fassbaender
Peter Schreier
Thomas Stewart
Zoltan Kelemen
Berliner Philharmoniker

Conductor

Herbert von Karajan

Works

Wagner, Richard

Das Rheingold

Artists

Jeannine Altmeyer
Brigitte Fassbaender
Peter Schreier
Thomas Stewart
Zoltan Kelemen
Berliner Philharmoniker

Conductor

Herbert von Karajan

About

Herbert von Karajan's Rheingold: The spectacular start of a “Ring” with the Berliner Philharmoniker doomed to remain a fragment.
This 1978 studio production of Rheingold, the prologue to The Ring, is the only segment of the famous Salzburg Festival/Metropolitan Opera productions first seen in the 1960s that made it to film. Based in a production from the Salzburg Easter Festival, Georges Wakhevitch has produced stage settings and transformations that support Karajan´s concept with every possible means. Karajan's staging is in the epic style of another age, emphasizing the dignity of the gods rather than their all too human failings.
With the singers – foremost among them Peter Schreier – Karajan has an ensemble that fully conforms to his intentions. Thomas Stewart is a nobly singing Wotan and next to him is the grandiose Brigitte Fassbaender as Fricka, a profoundly embittered figure.

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