Das Rheingold - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Das Rheingold
Opera in one act, in German with Hungarian and English surtitles
If Richard Wagner were alive today, he would surely be considered a master of fantasy, writing the top bestsellers and bringing home the most Grammies and Oscars and lining up against The Lord of the Rings, Thor, and Harry Potter in popularity, and perhaps even the Star Wars series. Drawing from Icelandic and German sagas, Wagner astonishes audiences with stories set to music of such grandiosity that no one remains unaffected.
Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. These four operas together make up the Ring, which the Opera House is bringing to the stage in a new set of productions. Das Rheingold introduces the audience to the magical world of nixies, dwarves, gods, valkyries and giants. In addition to composing an entirely new kind of music, Wagner’s grandiose concepts also placed tremendous demands on stage design then and now. Water nymphs sing while swimming in a river; a dwarf first becomes invisible and then turns into a frog in plain view; giants fight with each other – in Das Rheingold alone, numerous events take place that are a great challenge to mount on the stage even today.
Géza M. Tóth’s short animated film, The Maestro, was nominated for an Oscar in 2007. The director has a close relationship with classical music, too, and was the creative force behind an animated film of Bartók’s theatrical works, The Miraculous Mandarin and Duke Bluebeard’s Castle. He has also created numerous films for the Hungarian Opera, including an animation for 2013’s Saint Matthew’s Passion. The Béla Balázs Award-winning animated film director and rector of the University of Theatre and Film Arts is now confronted with the task of doing battle – by means of his powerful images – with the “impossible”.
Conductor
Péter Halász
Wotan
Mihály Kálmándi
Donner
Sándor Egri
Froh
Zoltán Nyári
Loge
Erőd Adrián
Alberich
Marcus Jupither
Mime
Zoltán Megyesi
Fasolt
Krisztián Cser
Fafner
Géza Gábor
Fricka
Judit Németh
Freia
Borbála Keszei
Erda
Erika Gál
Woglinde
Eszter Wierdl
Wellgunde
Krisztina Simon
Flosshilde
Melinda Heiter
Composer
Richard Wagner
English subtitles
Arthur Roger Crane
Director
Tóth Géza M.
If Richard Wagner were alive today, he would surely be considered a master of fantasy, writing the top bestsellers and bringing home the most Grammies and Oscars and lining up against The Lord of the Rings, Thor, and Harry Potter in popularity, and perhaps even the Star Wars series. Drawing from Icelandic and German sagas, Wagner astonishes audiences with stories set to music of such grandiosity that no one remains unaffected.
Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. These four operas together make up the Ring, which the Opera House is bringing to the stage in a new set of productions. Das Rheingold introduces the audience to the magical world of nixies, dwarves, gods, valkyries and giants. In addition to composing an entirely new kind of music, Wagner’s grandiose concepts also placed tremendous demands on stage design then and now. Water nymphs sing while swimming in a river; a dwarf first becomes invisible and then turns into a frog in plain view; giants fight with each other – in Das Rheingold alone, numerous events take place that are a great challenge to mount on the stage even today.
Géza M. Tóth’s short animated film, The Maestro, was nominated for an Oscar in 2007. The director has a close relationship with classical music, too, and was the creative force behind an animated film of Bartók’s theatrical works, The Miraculous Mandarin and Duke Bluebeard’s Castle. He has also created numerous films for the Hungarian Opera, including an animation for 2013’s Saint Matthew’s Passion. The Béla Balázs Award-winning animated film director and rector of the University of Theatre and Film Arts is now confronted with the task of doing battle – by means of his powerful images – with the “impossible”.
Conductor
Péter Halász
Wotan
Mihály Kálmándi
Donner
Sándor Egri
Froh
Zoltán Nyári
Loge
Erőd Adrián
Alberich
Marcus Jupither
Mime
Zoltán Megyesi
Fasolt
Krisztián Cser
Fafner
Géza Gábor
Fricka
Judit Németh
Freia
Borbála Keszei
Erda
Erika Gál
Woglinde
Eszter Wierdl
Wellgunde
Krisztina Simon
Flosshilde
Melinda Heiter
Composer
Richard Wagner
English subtitles
Arthur Roger Crane
Director
Tóth Géza M.
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