
23/04/1990
From the gorgeous scene deep in the river Rhine that opens the opera, up to the magic Rainbow Bridge that appears at the end, leading to a glistening Valhalla, Otto Schenk’s production captures the scenic world of Wagner’s Ring as brilliantly as James Levine and the Met orchestra capture the musical world. The cast is incomporable: an astounding James Morris as the young god Wotan, the great Christa Ludwig as his wife Fricka, incandescent Siegfried Jerusalem as Loge, the wily god of fire, and Ekkehard Wlaschiha as a complex Alberich.

James Morris
as Wotan

Siegfried Jerusalem
as Loge

Ekkehard Wlaschiha
as Alberich

Christa Ludwig
as Fricka

MariAnne Häggander
as Freia

Mark Baker
as Froh

Alan Held
as Donner

Jan-Hendrik Rootering
as Fasolt

Matti Salminen
as Fafner

Heinz Zednik
as Mime

Birgitta Svendén
as Erda

Kaaren Erickson
as Woglinde

Diane Kesling
as Wellgunde

Meredith Parsons
as Flosshilde

James Levine
as Conductor

MET Orchestra
as
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