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Das Rheingold

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The first instalment of Covent Garden's new Ring cycle, produced by YURI LYUBIMOV , live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.
Before Wagner's opera the conductor Bernard Haitink and the designer of this new production. Paul Hernon , talk with Donald Macleod. soprano (mezzo-soprano) (mezzo-soprano)
(tenor)
(bass) (mezzo-soprano) (soprano) (bass-baritone) (tenor) (contralto) (tenor)
ORCHESTRA OF ROYAL OPERA HOUSE. COVENTGARDEN led by HUGH MAGUIRE conducted by BERNARD HAITINK (Presented in association with British Steel)

Contributors

Produced By:
Yuri Lyubimov
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink
Unknown:
Paul Hernon
Soprano:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Hugh Maguire
Conducted By:
Bernard Haitink
Rhinedaughters: woglinde:
Judith Howarth
Rhinedaughters: Wellgunde:
Anne Mason
Rhinedaughters: Flosshilde:
Jane Turner
Nibelungs: Alberich:
Ekkehard Wlaschiha
Nibelungs: Mime:
John Dobson
Gods: Wotan, their leader:
James Morris
Fricka, his wife:
Helga Dernesch
Freia, goddess of love and youth:
Nancy Gustafson
Donner the thunder-god:
Phillip Joll
Froh, his brother:
Kim Begley
Erda, the earth-goddess:
Jadwiga Rappe
Loge, demi-god of fire:
Kenneth Riegel
Giants: Fasolt (bass):
Roderick Kennedy
Fafner:
Willard White
Source: Radio Times

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