Wagner: Das Rheingold [DVD Video]
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Brand: UniConductor: Herbert von Karajan
Performer: Jeannine Altmeyer; Brigitte Fassbaender; Peter Schre
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: German (Original Language), DTS 5.1; German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 164 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
Movie Reviews of Wagner: Das Rheingold [DVD Video]
Movie Review: Clear, interesting, excellently sung
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD presents the first segment of Wagner's Ring Cycle in an interesting, comprehensible way. Though it's a "reconstructed" performance rather than a filmed evening at the opera, Wagner's storyline comes over with greater clarity than in any other video version, even the Met edition. The special effects aren't Star Wars calibre, but they get their various points across and are often more graphic than a stage production can manage. In addition Karajan doesn't overwhelm Wagner's libretto with ultramodern gimmicks and stylizations; such things may work for European audiences who can see this opera several times a season across Germany and Austria, but for the rest of us who aren't so privileged - no thanks. Here, at least, Wagner still runs the show.
In addition we get excellent singing from the fine Wagnerians of the 70s-80s - Thomas Stewart's perceptive and richly sung Wotan, Peter Schreier's witty Loge, Zoltan Kelemen's anguished Alberich, and Brigitte Fassbander's golden-toned Fricka. As for the orchestral work, Karajan and the Berliners play this music as ravishingly as I've ever heard it. The stereo sound is splendid, too.
Summary of Wagner: Das Rheingold [DVD Video]
This 1978 studio production of Das Rheingold, the prologue to The Ring, is the only segment of the famous Salzburg Festival/Metropolitan Opera productions, first seen in the 1960s, that made it to film. For this production Georges Wakhevitch has produced stage settings and transformations that support Karajan's concept with every possible means. Karajan's staging is in the epic style of another age, emphasizing the dignity of the gods rather than their all too human failings. With the singers, foremost among them Peter Schreier, Karajan has an ensemble that fully conforms to his intentions. The production also includes Thomas Stewart as a nobly singing Wotan alongside the grandiose Brigitte Fassbaender as Fricka, a profoundly embittered figure.Art House & International DVD Video
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