Wagner: Das Rheingold

About Wagner: Das Rheingold

This is a beautifully conducted and thoughtfully staged performance of the first opera (the prologue) in Wagner's Ring Cycle. As soon as the clouds of mist have dissipated, while the daring, long-held opening chord is still reverberating, the screen clears to show not only the River Rhine and the three maidens (dressed like prostitutes in this production) assigned to guard the gold hidden there.

Wagner: Das Rheingold is a 1980 music film directed by Brian Large and Patrice Chéreau. At 146 minutes long, it arrived in August 1980.

The film is filed under opera, opera live performance, and bayreuther festspiele.

Donald McIntyre takes the lead as Wotan, Martin Egel as Donner, Siegfried Jerusalem as Froh, and Heinz Zednik as Loge. The screenplay is by Richard Wagner. In the United States it streams on Carnegie Hall+ Amazon Channel and Carnegie Hall+ Apple TV channel.

Siegfried - Bayreuther Festspiele, Notre Dame de Paris - Live Arena di Verona, and Carmen make useful companions to Wagner: Das Rheingold.