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CONDUCTOR: John Fiore
STAGE DIRECTOR: Kurt Horres
STAGE DESIGN: Andreas Reinhardt
COSTUMES: Andreas Reinhardt
CHORUS MASTER: Pavel Vaněk
DRAMATURGY: Jan Panenka
The opera is presented in the German original (with Czech and English super-titles)
Czech Premiere in co-operation with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf/Duisburg, Germany on 17th April, 2005

CAST:
WOTAN: John Wegner
DONNER: Stefan Heidemann
FROH: Bruce Rankin
LOGE: Wolfgang Schmidt
ALBERICH: Hermann Becht
MIME: Helmut Pampuch
FASOLT: Torsten Gruembel
FAFNER: Sami Luttinen
FRICKA: Renée Morloc

This 'fore-evening' to Wagner's 'Bühnenfest-spiel' (festi-val theatrical presentation) Der Ring des Nibelungen takes us into a world of gods, dwarfs, and giants. In Das Rheingold we find ourselves among the nymphs of the river Rhine who guard an accumulation of gold and treasures. These Rhinemaidens betray the secret of the gold, which can be acquired only by one who forswears love, and this sets loose a complicated thread of intrigues, machinations, and magic tricks. Everyone wants to win possession of the golden ring, in which lies the power of the gold. But the ring is cursed and all who wear it are doomed to die.

First Series of the Ring:
17.4.2005 (19:00) - Das Rheingold
23.4.2005 (18:00) - Die Walküre
1.5.2005 (17:00) - Siegfried
14.5.2005 (17:00) - Die Götterdämmerung

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