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Premiere of ‘Das Rheingold’ at Opernhaus Düsseldorf [ From category News ] [ Article date: 2017-06-20 ] [ From city Dusseldorf ] [ Country Germania ]   Eagerly awaited far beyond the Rhine, the premiere of ‘Das Rheingold’ will take place on Friday, 23rd June, at Opernhaus Düsseldorf. 27 years after its last new production, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein stages Richard Wagner’s four part opera cycle ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’ under the direction of Dietrich W. Hilsdorf. For Axel Kober this new production of Richard Wagner’s ‘Ring des Nibelungen’ fulfils a dream: the Deutsche Oper am Rhein’s Music Director, who has conducted regularly at the Bayreuth Festival since 2013 will produce this opus magnum with both orchestras - the Düsseldorfer Sym­pho­­niker and the Duisburger Philharmoni­ker - and different casts of singers on the stages of both Opernhaus Düsseldorf and Theater Duisburg by the summer of 2019 and thus continue the Deutsche Oper am Rhein’s great Wagner tradition. The Director Dietrich W. Hilsdorf, who was engaged by General Director Christoph Meyer along with Dieter Richter (stage design) and Renate Schmitzer (costumes) for the new production, regards this production of the four-part opera cycle as an open-ended process: “What is important to us is to conceive each piece independently and to allow the links across the whole of the ‘Ring’ to emerge from this. ‘Das Rheingold’, in which all the conflicts of the tetralogy are established, can be regarded as a collage made up of images of the 19th century bourgeoisie, whose idyllic lives are interrupted by economic and social crises." ‘Das Rheingold’ in Düsseldorf and Duisburg (Premiere on 4th November 2017) offers exciting opportunities to experience distinguished visiting soloists and established Wagnerians from the Deutsche Oper am Rhein’s ensemble. In Düsseldorf Simon Neal, recently seen here to great acclaim as Telra­mund (‘Lohengrin’) and Mandryka (‘Arabella’), makes his debut as Wotan. In Norbert Ernst the Bayreuth Festival and Vienna State Opera’s Loge returns to his first operatic home. The internationally successful baritone Michael Kraus makes his debut as Alberich. All the other roles are sung by soloists from our own ensemble; Renée Morloc appears as Fricka, Sylvia Hamvasi as Freia and Susan Maclean as Erda. Torben Jürgens and Ovidiu Purcel are Donner and Froh. Bogdan Taloş and Thorsten Grümbel play the giants Fasolt and Fafner, Alberich’s brother Mime is sung by Cornel Frey. Anke Krabbe, Maria Kataeva and Ramona Zaharia appear as the Rhine maidens. DAS RHEINGOLD at Opernhaus Düsseldorf: Fri 23th June - 19.30 h (Premiere) / Sun 25th June - 18.30 h / Thurs 29th June - 19.30 h / Sun 2nd July - 18.30 h / Wed 12th July - 19.30 h / Fri 14th July - 19.30 h / Sun 16th July - 15.00 h DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN - the remaining premieres: DAS RHEINGOLD: Sat 4th November 2017 - Theater Duisburg DIE WALKÜRE: Sun 28th January 2018 - Opernhaus Düsseldorf / Thurs 31st May 2018 - Theater Duisburg SIEGFRIED: Sat 7th April 2018 - Opernhaus Düsseldorf / Sat 26th January 2019 - Theater Duisburg GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG: Sat 27th October 2018 - Opernhaus Düsseldorf / Sun 5th May 2019 - Theater Duisburg Tickets and further information are available from the Opernshop Düsseldorf (Tel. 0211.89 25 211) and the Theaterkasse Duisburg (Tel. 0203.283 62 100) as well as online at www.ringamrhein.de.

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