Das Reingold (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY

Picture format: 1080i Full-HD
Sound format: PCM Stereo / DTS-HD master audio 5.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Menu language: English
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
Running time: 166 mins

Note: This Blu-ray Disc (BD) is not compatible with standard DVD players

Wotan - Mario Hoff
Donner - Alexander Günther
Froh - Jean-Noël 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

Staaskapelle Weimar
Carl St. Clair, conductor

Michael Schulz, stage director
Dirk Becker, set designer
Renée Listerdal, costume designer

Recorded live from the Deutsches Nationaltheater, Weimar, 2008.

"Weimar National Theatre opens a promising 'Ring' cycle with Wagner's original ur-scene." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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 finally 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' fine and highly intelligent staging this new "Ring" production on DVD and Blu-Ray becomes an outstanding document of contemporary opera theatre.