Overview

The La Scala Rheingold in May 2010 inaugurated Guy Cassiers Ring-Cycle and introduces a completely new paradigm to this work. While before him Patrice Chéreau had laid his focus on a historical analysis from 1870 to 1930 Germany, Guy Cassiers’ Ring unfolds “from our own present-day moment; it [takes] place in ‘the now’, the Jetztzeit (Walter Benjamin), placing our present and our future into the context of the promises and curses that we have inherited from history … The Cassiers Ring shows how the globalized moment of 2010 continues to build on the Wagnerian vocabularies of 1870.” (Michael Steinberg) Cast with a number of opera stars like René Pape, Stephan Rügamer, Johannes Martin Kränzle and Anna Larsson and conducted by Daniel Barenboim, this Rheingold is bound to put the audience under its spell.

Top Cast

René Pape

Wotan

Stephan Rügamer

Loge

Johannes Martin Kränzle

Alberich

Doris Soffel

Fricka

Kwangchul Youn

Fasolt

Timo Riihonen

Fafner

Anna Samuil

Freia

Anna Larsson

Erda

Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke

Mime

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Aga Mikolaj

Woglinde

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Maria Gortsevskaya

Wellgunde

Marina Prudenskaya

Flosshilde