Wagner
Das Rheingold 160'
(concert performance; sung in German)
Cast to include:
Iain Paterson Wotan
Stephan Rügamer Loge
Jan Buchwald Donner
Marius Vlad Froh
Ekaterina Gubanova Fricka
Anna Samuil Freia
Anna Larsson Erda
Johannes Martin Kränzle Alberich
Peter Bronder Mime
Eric Halfvarson Fafner
Aga Mikolaj Woglinde
Maria Gortsevskaya Wellgunde
Anna Lapkovskaja Flosshilde
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim conductor
There will be no interval
Stolen gold, slave labour and a world order on the edge of collapse.
Daniel Barenboim launches his Proms Ring cycle (and conducts his first Wagner opera in the UK ), following his Beethoven symphony cycle last year.
The Staatskapelle Berlin explores the corrupting influence of the all-powerful ring with a cast mined from Barenboim's recent Berlin and Milan Ring cycles.