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Wagner's Ring

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Episode 1: Das Rheingold

Das Rheingold

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Wagner's Ring, Das Rheingold

Live from the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano conducts Wagner's Das Rheingold.

Live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano conducts Wagner's Das Rheingold. With Bryn Terfel (Wotan), Wolfgang Koch (Alberich) and Stig Andersen (Loge).

Wagner's Das Rheingold 
Presented by Donald Macleod

The first of the music dramas comprising Wagner's epic Ring Cycle launches the relay of the four Ring operas which come live from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden over the next fortnight. In Das Rheingold, the dwarf Alberich renounces love and steals the Rhinegold from which he forges a magic ring. Meanwhile Wotan, chief of the gods, has built his mighty fortress Valhalla with the help of the giants. But in order to pay them back, Wotan in turn needs to steal the Rhinegold back from Alberich. And so with this double theft Wagner sets up the theme of love versus power that reverberates throughout all four dramas.

Presentation includes interviews with the artists and also with Wagner expert John Deathridge.

Woglinde.....Nadine Livingston (Soprano)
Wellgunde.....Kai Ruutel (Mezzo-Soprano)
Flosshilde.....Harriet Williams (Mezzo-Soprano)
Alberich.....Wolfgang Koch (Baritone)
Wotan.....Bryn Terfel (Bass-Baritone)
Fricka.....Sarah Connolly (Mezzo-Soprano)
Freia.....Ann Petersen (Soprano)
Fasolt.....Iain Paterson (Bass)
Fafner.....Eric Halfvarson (Bass)
Froh.....Andrew Rees (Tenor)
Donner.....Peter Coleman-Wright (Baritone)
Loge.....Stig Andersen (Tenor)
Mime.....Gerhard Siegel (Tenor)
Erda.....Maria Radner (Contralto)
Orchestra of The Royal Opera House
Conductor, Antonio Pappano.

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Relays of the four music dramas comprising Wagner's epic Ring Cycle

From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, relays of the four music dramas comprising Wagner's epic Ring Cycle

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