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DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN

on Network Three

Wagner
Das Rheingold
Music drama in four scenes
Sung in German
gramophone records
(Stereo)
Cast in order of singing:
Three Rhinemaidens:
Two giants:
Gods:
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by GEORG SOLTI
Scene 1 At the bottom of the Rhine
Scene 2 An open space on a mountain height
Scene 3 The subterranean caves of Nibelheim
Scene 4 An open space on a mountain height ,
First of six weekly programmes to include the whole of Wagner's ' Ring '
Nert week: Die Walkure Acts I and 2

Contributors

Conducted By:
Georg Solti
Woglinde:
Oda Balsborg (soprano)
Wlelgunde:
Hetty PlümacHer (soprano)
Flosshide:
Ira Malaniuk (mezzo-Soprano)
Alberich, the Nibelung:
Gustav Neidlinger (bass-Baritone)
Fricka wife of Wotan:
Kirsten Flagstad (mezzo-Soprano)
Wotan:
George London (bass)
Freia, goddess of youth:
Claire Watson (soprano)
Fasolt:
Walter Kreppel (bass)
Fafner:
Kurt Böhme (bass)
Froh:
Waldemar Kmentt (tenor)
Donner:
Eberhard Waechter (baritone)
Lose:
Set Svanholm (tenor)
Mime brother of Alberich:
Paul Kuen (tenor)
Erda, the Earth Goddess:
Jean Madeira (contralto)

Network Three

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