Das Rheingold (DVD), Harry Kupfer, Bertrand de Billy, Struckmann, Matos, Kannen, Youn, Hölle
Stage director: Harry Kupfer
Conductor: Bertrand de Billy
Wotan: Falk Struckmann
Donner: Wolfgang Rauch
Froh: Jeffrey Dowd
Fricka: Lioba Braun
Freia: Elisabete Matos
Alberich: Günter von Kannen
Mime: Francisco Vas
Fasolt: Kwanchul Youn
Fafner: Matthias Hölle
Erda: Andrea Bönig
Woglinde: Christina Obregón
Wellgunde: Ana Ibarra
Flosshilde: Francisca Beaumont
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 2005
Set design: Hans Schavernoch
Costume design: Reinhard Heinrich
Lighting: Franz Peter David
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Reviews
"We still don't have a really good DVD Ring. Here's a promising beginning
to a cycle, in an up-to-date recording from Barcelona: it's the most recommendable
Rheingold so far. [...] It's a lot more attractive [than Kupfer's Bayreuth
staging], and rightly attentive to the Ring's mythological core. [...]
Bertrand de Billy's warm, slowish reading is likeable, but doesn't generate
enough shape and dramatic drive. Falk Struckman's
Wotan is a strong-voiced
dramatic presence, but his tone is harsh and vibrant and his characterisation
arrogantly unsympathetic. Günter von Kannen is now a rather portly Alberich,
and despite a wonderfully malign glare, short on vocal and dramatic bite.
Not so Graham Clark's Loge, incisively sung, even if his character tenor
underplays the part's more lyrical side. Lioba Braun, Elisabete
Matos and
Andrea Bönig are worthy goddesses. Jeffrey
Dowd a strong if not ideally
melliflous Froh and Wolfgang Rauch an unusually impressive Donner. Veteran
Matthias Hölle and rising star Kwangchul
Youn are excellent Giants, android-like
figures more effective than Bayreuth's dehumanised monstrous puppets."
The
Gramophone Classical Music Guide 2008 
Other DVD's in this Ring:
Die Walküre
Siegfried
Götterdämmerung
Another production of Der Ring des Nibelungen by Harry Kupfer (Bayreuth)
Das Rheingold on DVD - Das Rheingold on CD