From the gorgeous scene deep in the river Rhine that opens the opera, up to the magic Rainbow Bridge that appears at the end, leading to a glistening Valhalla, Otto Schenk’s production captures the scenic world of Wagner’s Ring as brilliantly as James Levine and the Met orchestra capture the musical world. The cast is incomporable: an astounding James Morris as the young god Wotan, the great Christa Ludwig as his wife Fricka, incandescent Siegfried Jerusalem as Loge, the wily god of fire, and Ekkehard Wlaschiha as a complex Alberich.
as Wotan
as Loge
as Alberich
as Fricka
as Freia
as Froh
as Donner
as Fasolt
as Fafner
as Mime
as Erda
as Woglinde
as Wellgunde
as Flosshilde
as Conductor
