Richard Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen [4 BRs] - Naxos Deutschland

DAS RHEINGOLD
"Aufnahme"
A production of the Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar, Staatstheater Thüringen, live recording 2008

"Interpreten"
Wotan - Mario Hoff
Donner - Alexander Günther
Froh - Jean-Noel Briend
Loge - Erin Caves
Alberich - Tomas Möwes
Mime - Frieder Aurich
Fasolt - Renatus Mészár
Fafner - Hidekazu Tsumaya
Fricka - Christine Hansmann
Freia - Marietta Zumbült
Erda - Nadine Weissmann
Woglinde - Silona Michel
Wellgunde - Susann Günther-Dissmeier
Floßhilde - Christiane Bassek

"Musik"
Staatskapelle Weimar
Conductor: Carl St.Clair

Outside Germany, the name Weimar tends to evoke mixed feelings and pictures of German history of the last hundred years. Within Germany, Weimar means a town in the state of Thuringia arguably saturated with the “Deutsche Kultur” of the “Weimarer Klassik”, the legendary Bauhaus, and fi nally the life and work of Franz Liszt and his son in law Richard Wagner. In Weimar Richard Wagner began composing the fi rst part of his RING-cycle, “Das Rheingold”.
In 2008 the Nationaltheater Weimar started a new production of this unique tetralogy. The conductor is Carl St.Clair, a former student of Leonard Bernstein. With Michael Schulz’ fi ne and highly intelligent staging this new “Ring” production on DVD and Blu-Ray becomes an outstanding document of contemporary opera theatre.



DIE WALKÜRE
"Interpreters"
Siegmund - Erin Caves
Hunding - Hidekazu Tsumaya
Wotan - Renatus Mészár
Sieglinde - Kirsten Blanck
Brünnhilde - Catherine Foster
Fricka - Christine Hansmann
Helmwige - Silona Michel
Gerhilde - Susann Günther-Dissmeier
Ortlinde - Joana Caspar
Waltraute - Marie-Helen Joël
Siegrune - Carola Guber
Roßweiße - Christiane Bassek
Grimgerde - Kerstin Quandt
Schwertleite - Nadine Weissmann
Grane - Erika Krämer
Freia as Harpist - Elisabeth Anetseder-Meyer
Donner - Lars Creuzburg
Froh / Loge - Steffen Bärtl

"Musik"
Weimar Staatskapelle
Carl St. Clair, conductor

"Recording"
Recorded live from Deutsches Nationaltheater, Weimar 2008.



SIEGFRIED
"Aufnahme"
Live recording from the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar 2008

"Musik"
Staatskapelle Weimar
Conductor: Carl St. Clair

"Interpreten"
Siegfried - Johnny van Hall
Mime - Frieder Aurich
Wotan as Wanderer - Tomas Möwes
Alberich - Mario Hoff
Fafner - Hidekazu Tsumaya
Brünnhilde - Catherine Foster
Forest Bird - Heike Porstein
Erda - Nadine Weissmann
Grane - Erika Krämer
Hagen, Son of Alberich - Johannes Martin
Voice of the Norns - Burkhard Wolf
Donner - Lars Creuzburg
Froh - Steffen Bärtl



GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
"Musik"
Staatskapelle Weimar
Conductor: Carl St. Clair
Opera Chorus of the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar
Gentlemen of the Philharmonic Chorus Weimar

"Interpreten"
Siegfried - Norbert Schmittberg
Gunther - Mario Hoff
Alberich - Tomas Möwes
Hagen - Renatus Meszar
Brünnhilde - Marietta Zumbült