Wagner: Das Rheingold

Zoltan Kelemen (Alberich), Peter Schreier (Loge), Thomas Stewart (Wotan), Jeannine Altmeyer (Freia), Brigitte Fassbaender (Fricka), Gerhard Stolze (Mime), Birgit Finnilä (Erda), Karl Ridderbusch (Fasolt), Louis Hendrikx (Fafner)

Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

Karajan's attempt to film his Salzburg Ring in a studio in Munich with a new soundtrack… stalled after one episode - and there's a reason. All Karajan's opera films are stilted attempts by a... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2009 More…

Release Date: 4th Feb 2008
Catalogue No: 0734390
Label: DG
Series: Unitel

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Wagner: Das Rheingold

Zoltan Kelemen (Alberich), Peter Schreier (Loge), Thomas Stewart (Wotan), Jeannine Altmeyer (Freia), Brigitte Fassbaender (Fricka), Hermin Esser (Froh), Lief Roar (Donner), Gerhard Stolze (Mime), Birgit Finnilä (Erda), Karl Ridderbusch (Fasolt), Louis Hendrikx (Fafner)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan

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May 2009

Karajan's attempt to film his Salzburg Ring in a studio in Munich with a new soundtrack… stalled after one episode - and there's a reason. All Karajan's opera films are stilted attempts by a musician who should have stayed at his conducting desk instead of working in an area of representation about which he seemed to understand a little. This Rheingold is by some way the worst of these films.

2010 edition

Karajan as stage director supervises an evocatively traditional production...Karajan as ever is masterly in his control of his forces, making this an exceptionally enjoyable version of the Vorabend of the Ring cycle.

Wagner: Das Rheingold

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