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.
James Morris
as Wotan
Siegfried Jerusalem
as Loge
Ekkehard Wlaschiha
as Alberich
Christa Ludwig
as Fricka
MariAnne Häggander
as Freia
Mark Baker
as Froh
Alan Held
as Donner
Jan-Hendrik Rootering
as Fasolt
Matti Salminen
as Fafner
Heinz Zednik
as Mime
Birgitta Svendén
as Erda
Kaaren Erickson
as Woglinde
