Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold - Universal/Music/DVD

In Patrice Chéreau's illuminating, violent Bayreuth production of Das Rheingold, Wotan wears the brocade coat of feudal times while the Rhine seems to be a reservoir with a modern power station - but, as Chéreau states, it "could also be many other things... a menacing construction, a theatrical machine to produce a river, an allegorical shape that today generates energy: perhaps a mythological presence, the mythology of our time... The gods' ascent to Valhalla (is) a defiant flight into the future."

"Darsteller"
Wotan - Donald McIntyre
Donner - Martin Egel
Froh - Siegfried Jerusalem
Loge - Heinz Zednik
Alberich - Hermann Becht
Mime - Helmut Pampuch
Fasolt - Matti Salminen
Fafner - Fritz Hübner
Fricka - Hanna Schwarz
Freia - Carman Reppel
Erda - Ortrun Wenkel
Woglinde - Norma Sharp
Wellgunde - Ilse Gramatzki
Flosshilde - Marga Schiml

Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele
Leitung: Pierre Boulez