Wagner: Das Rheingold

About Wagner: Das Rheingold

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 c…

Wagner: Das Rheingold is a 2013 music film directed by Guy Cassiers. At 163 minutes long, it arrived in September 2013.

René Pape takes the lead as Wotan, Stephan Rügamer as Loge, Johannes Martin Kränzle as Alberich, and Doris Soffel as Fricka. In the United States it streams on Stingray Classica Amazon Channel.