Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Frieder Aurich, Kirsten Blanck, Erin Caves, Catherine Foster, Christine Hansmann, Mario Hoff, Renatus Mészár, Tomas Möwes, Norbert Schmittberg, Hidekazu Tsumaya, Johnny van Hal, Nadine Weissmann, Marietta Zumbült
Orchestra and Chorus of the Staatskapelle Weimar, Carl St.Clair
Carl St. Clair is adept at handling both the apocalyptic mood of the music and the translucent shimmering of the forest. A brilliant achievement.
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Frieder Aurich, Kirsten Blanck, Erin Caves, Catherine Foster, Christine Hansmann, Mario Hoff, Renatus Mészár, Tomas Möwes, Norbert Schmittberg, Hidekazu Tsumaya, Johnny van Hal, Nadine Weissmann, Marietta Zumbült
Orchestra and Chorus of the Staatskapelle Weimar, Carl St.Clair
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Carl St. Clair is adept at handling both the apocalyptic mood of the music and the translucent shimmering of the forest. A brilliant achievement.
About
In 2008 the Nationaltheater Weimar started a new production of Richard Wagner’s unique tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen. The conductor is Carl St.Clair, a former student of Leonard Bernstein. With Michael Schulz’ fine and highly intelligent staging this new “Ring” production becomes an outstanding document of contemporary opera theatre.
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 first part of his RING-cycle, "Das Rheingold”.
Sound Formats: PCM Stereo, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Picture Format: 16:9
Audio Language: DE
Subtitles: DE, EN, FR, IT, ES, JP
Contents and tracklist
- Live Recording from the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, 2008
- [b]Das Rheingold[/b] Mario Hoff (Wotan), Erin Caves (Loge), Tomas Möwes (Alberich), Christine Hansmann (Fricka), Renatus Mészár (Fasolt), Hidekazu Tsumaya (Fafner), Marietta Zumbült (Freia), Alexander Günther (Donner), Jean-Noël Briend (Froh), Frieder Aurich (Mime), Nadine Weissmann (Erda), Silona Michel (Woglinde), Susann Günther-Dissmeier (Wellgunde) & Christiane Bassek (Flosshilde) [b]Die Walküre[/b] Erin Caves (Siegmund), Kirsten Blanck (Sieglinde), Hidekazu Tsumaya (Hunding), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde), Renatus Mészár (Wotan), Christine Hansmann (Fricka), Susann Günther-Dissmeier (Gerhilde), Joana Caspar (Ortlinde), Marie-Helen Joël (Waltraute), Nadine Weissmann (Schwertleite), Silona Michel (Helmwige), Carola Guber (Siegrune), Kerstin Quandt (Grimgerde) & Christiane Bassek (Rossweisse) [b]Siegfried[/b] Johnny van Hal (Siegfried), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde), Frieder Aurich (Mime), Tomas Möwes (Der Wanderer), Mario Hoff (Alberich), Hidekazu Tsumaya (Fafner), Nadine Weis
- Orchestra and Chorus of the Staatskapelle Weimar
- Carl St Clair
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Catherine Foster on Wagner
16th Apr 2020
The British dramatic soprano, who sings Brünnhilde on the Weimar Ring Cycle which is now available on Arthaus Musik, talks to Katherine about her remarkable journey from midwifery to Bayreuth.
Awards and reviews
New Classics May 2017
Carl St. Clair is adept at handling both the apocalyptic mood of the music and the translucent shimmering of the forest. A brilliant achievement.
