Valentin Schwarz stages Wagner’s Rheingold as a modern family drama in which power, greed and loss are told through interpersonal relationships rather than mythological symbols.
Cast 2025
Conductor: Simone Young
Director: Valentin Schwarz
Stage design: Andrea Cozzi
Costumes: Andy Besuch
Dramaturgy: Konrad Kuhn
Lighting: Reinhard Traub, Nicol Hungsberg
Video: Luis August Krawen
Wotan: Tomasz Konieczny
Donner: Nicholas Brownlee
Froh: Mirko Roschkowski
Loge: Daniel Behle
Fricka: Christa Mayer
Freia: Christina Nilsson
Erda: Anna Kissjudit
Alberich: Olafur Sigurdarson
Mime: Ya-Chung Huang
Fasolt: Patrick Zielke
Fafner: Tobias Kehrer
Woglinde: Katharina Konradi
Wellgunde: Natalia Skrycka
Floßhilde: Marie Henriette Reinhold
Events
Scenes from the premiere performances of Valentin Schwarz‘s “Das Rheingold”, “Die Walküre”, “Siegfried” and “Götterdämmerung” in 2022.
The Ring arises from an act of insult – and unleashes forces that no one can contain. “Das Rheingold” casts a glance at the first step of an unstoppable movement.
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