Das Rheingold
- Episode aired 1980
- 2h 44m
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8.4/10
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Wotan wants to steal the gold from the Nibelungen.Wotan wants to steal the gold from the Nibelungen.Wotan wants to steal the gold from the Nibelungen.
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Woglinde: Only one who renounces love, who forswears its pleasures forever, he alone can master the magic to forge the gold into a ring of power.
Wellgunde: Then we are safe and free from worry: all who live, love; no one will refrain from loving.
Woglinde: Least of all this lecherous dwarf! He will waste away with unsatisfied desire.
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Mostly this production is very impressive
I love opera and Wagner, and I appreciate the Ring Cycle and Das Rheingold highly. This production is very impressive, and I also love the 1990 Met production.Mostly, this Das Rheingold has the full package, evocative sets, skillful video directing with a quite cinematic style to it, magnificent music, superb orchestra playing and conducting and great acting and singing. The costumes are on the most part fine too, excepting the giants. Of the singers, Hanns Schwarz is excellent and Donald McIntyre excels as a richly voiced and very convincingly acted Wotan. The Rheine Maidens are wonderfully cast too, Heinz Zednik is a superlative Loge and Hermann Brecht is a splendidly-characterised Alberich, but my favourite was Matti Salminen who is just brilliant as Fasolt. Less successful is Fritz Hubner as Fafner, good acting but a little too woolly vocally for my tastes. Overall though, much to like and very impressive. 8/10 Bethany Cox
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