Das Rheingold | The Ring Cycle

Opera North’s acclaimed concert staging of Wagner’s Ring cycle, filmed in Leeds, UK, June 2016. The Ring begins with music that evokes the very dawn of time. From this moment we are plunged into the watery twilight beneath the river Rhine, transported to misty mountain-tops and to the depths of gloomy Nibelheim, before crossing the rainbow bridge that leads to Valhalla, fortress home of the gods. Set in a world populated by dwarfs and giants, gods and river-maidens, Wagner’s ‘preliminary evening’ to the Ring sets the whole epic cycle in motion in thrilling fashion. CONDUCTOR: Richard Farnes STAGE DIRECTOR AND LIGHTING & PROJECTION DESIGNER: Peter Mumford FILM DIRECTOR: Peter Mumford WOTAN: Michael Druiett LOGE: Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke ALBERICH: Jo Pohlheim FRICKE: Yvonne Howard MIME: Richard Roberts FREIA: Giselle Allen DONNER: Andrew Foster-Williams FROH: Mark Le Brocq FASOLT: James Creswell FAFNER: Mats Almgren ERDA: Claudia Huckle WOGLINDE: Jeni Bern WELLGUNDE: Madeleine Shaw FLOSSHILDE: Sarah Castle Find out more » https://www.operanorth.co.uk/the-ring-cycle?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ONRing #ONRing