
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
