Esa Ruuttunen, Bernhard Schneider, Eberhard Francesco Lorenz, Lothar Zagrosek, Wolfgang Probst, Robert Künzli, Roland Bracht, Staatsorchester Stuttgart & Motti Kastón
Wagner - Das Rheingold
Video Director: Thorsten Fricke & János Darvas - Artist: Esa Ruuttunen, Bernhard Schneider, Eberhard Francesco Lorenz, Lothar Zagrosek, Wolfgang Probst, Robert Künzli, Roland Bracht, Staatsorchester Stuttgart & Motti Kastón - Producer: EuroArts Music International & brilliant media/ VIDEAL - Conductor: Lothar Zagrosek - Composer: Richard Wagner - Stage Director: Joachim Schlömer - Orchestra: Staatsorchester Stuttgart
Wagner - Das Rheingold
Das Rheingold is the prologue to Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle. This rendition (2003) features the Staatsoper Stuttgart under the baton of conductor Lothar Zagrosek. Tonight’s soloists are Wolfgang Probst, Motti Kastón, Bernhard Schneider, Robert Künzli, Esa Ruuttunen, Eberhard Francesco Lorenz and Roland Bracht. With beautiful orchestration and an unerring sense of the dramatic, the first opera explains how the Rhinedaughters lost the Ring and how it fell into the hands of Alberich the Nibelung; Wotan, king of the gods; and Fafner the giant. Each time it changes hands, the Ring confers upon the bearer a curse and this pattern is set to continue until it is restored to its rightful owners, the daughters of the Rhine.