Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold (2002) [DVD9 NTSC] (Brian Large James Levine)

Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold (2002) [DVD9 NTSC] (Brian Large James Levine)


Actors: James Morris, Siegfried Jerusalem, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Christa Ludwig, MariAnne Häggander
Directors: Brian Large, James Levine
Writers: Richard Wagner
Format: Multiple Formats, Classical, Color, Surround Sound, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC
Language: German (Dolby Digital 5.1), German (DTS 5.1), German (PCM Stereo)
Subtitles: English
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
DVD Release Date: November 12, 2002
Run Time: 163 minutes


'Das Rheingold' tells the story about Alberich's theft of the gold from the Rhine, the forging of the Ring of power and sets off a cascade of events that further develop in the subsequent operas of the Ring Cycle

Das Rheingold WWV 86A, is the first of the four operas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen ('The Ring of the Nibelung'). It was originally written as an introduction to the tripartite Ring, but the cycle is now generally regarded as consisting of four individual operas.

Das Rheingold premiered at the National Theatre Munich on 22 September 1869, with August Kindermann in the role of Wotan, Heinrich Vogl as Loge, and Karl Fischer as Alberich. Wagner wanted this opera to premiere as part of the entire cycle, but was forced to allow the performance at the insistence of his patron King Ludwig II of Bavaria. The opera was first performed as part of the complete cycle on 13 August 1876, in the Bayreuther Festspielhaus.