The BBC Proms presents a concert performance of Wagner's 'Das Rheingold'. The first of four operas in his 'Ring Cycle', it sets the scene – how Alberich the dwarf steals the gold from the Rhinemaidens and sets in train the destruction of the gods.
Staatskapelle Berlin under Daniel Barenboim.
Iain Paterson baritone (Wotan)
Stephan Rügamer tenor (Loge)
Jan Buchwald baritone (Donner)
Marius Vlad tenor, (Froh)
Ekaterina Gubanova mezzo-soprano (Fricka)
Anna Samuil soprano (Freia)
Anna Larsson mezzo-soprano (Erda)
Johannes Martin Kränzle baritone (Alberich)
Peter Bronder tenor (Mime)
Eric Halfvarson bass (Fafner)
Stephen Milling (Fasolt)
Aga Mikolaj soprano (Woglinde)
Maria Gortsevskaya mezzo-soprano (Wellgunde)
Anna Lapkovskaja mezzo-soprano, (Flosshilde)
(Running time: two hour 55 mins. There are two intervals of 30 mins; sung in German.)
(Note: in the Royal College of Music at 3.15pm, a Proms Plus Into event. Sara Mohr-Pietsch is joined by Barbara Eichner for an introduction to 'Das Rheingold'. Free.)