Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen / Stuttgart

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Label: EUROARTS
Catalog: 2057368
Format: DVD

Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Lothar Zagrosek

Richard Wagner
Das Rheingold: Wolfgang Probst (Wotan), Motti Kastón (Donner), Bernhard Schneider (Froh), Robert Künzli (Loge), Esa Ruuttunen (Alberich), Eberhard Francesco Lorenz (Mime), Roland Bracht (Fasolt), Phillip Ens (Fafner), Michaela Schuster (Fricka), Helga Rós Indridadóttir (Freia), Mette Ejsing (Erda), Catriona Smith (Woglinde), Maria Theresa Ullrich (Wellgunde), Margarete Joswig (Flosshilde)
Die Walküre: Robert Gambill (Siegmund), Attila Jun (Hunding), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Wotan), Angela Denoke (Sieglinde), Renate Behle (Brünnhilde), Tichina Vaughn (Fricka), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Gerhilde), Wiebke Göetjes (Ortlinde), Stella Kleindienst (Waltraute), Helene Ranada (Schwertleite), Magdalena Schäfer (Helmwige), Nidia Palacios (Siegrune), Maria Theresa Ullrich (Grimgerde), Margit Diefenthal (Rossweisse)
Siegfried: Jon Fredric West (Siegfried), Heinz Göhrig (Mime), Wolfgang Schöne (Der Wanderer), Björn Waag (Alberich), Attila Jun (Fafner), Helene Ranada (Erda), Lisa Gasteen (Brünnhilde), Gabriela Herrera (Der Waldvogel)
Götterdämmerung: Albert Bonnema (Siegfried), Luana DeVol (Brünnhilde), Roland Bracht (Hagen), Hernan Iturralde (Gunther), Franz-Josef Kapellmann (Alberich), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Gutrune), Tichina Vaugh (Waltraute), Janet Collins (First Norn, Flosshilde), Lani Poulson (Second Norn), Sue Patchell (Third Norn), Helga Rós Indridadóttir (Woglinde), Sarah Castle (Wellgunde)

The legendary Stuttgart Ring of 2002 is distuingished not just by its outstanding cast under the much-acclaimed direction of Lothar Zagrosek but more especially by its revolutionary production concept: all four parts of Wagner's epoch-making masterpiece were staged by different directors, all of tehm well known and all of them working in a contemporary idiom. The result received considerable international attention.

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