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Wagner: Das Rheingold, WWV 86A (Remastered 2021) [Live]

4/16/2021, 39 Tracks, 2:39:42

Featuring

  • Ferdinand Frantz
  • Alfred Poell
  • Lorenz Fehenberger
  • Wolfgang Windgassen
  • Josef Greindl
  • Gottlob Frick
  • Gustav Neidlinger
  • Julius Patzak
  • Ira Malaniuk
  • Elisabeth Grümmer
  • Ruth Siewert
  • Sena Jurinac
  • Magda Gabory
  • Hilde Rössel-Majdan
  • Wilhelm Furtwängler
  • Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI
  • Richard Wagner

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Composition History

Das Rheingold is the 'Vorabend' (prelude or preliminary evening) to Richard Wagner's monumental four-opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Wolfgang Windgassen, a German tenor, performed the role of Loge in this recording.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Wilhelm Furtwängler was a renowned German conductor who led the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della Rai for this recording.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was a German composer, theater director, polemicist, and conductor primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were known, "music dramas").

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This recording of Das Rheingold was made on October 26, 1953, at the Auditorio del Foro Italico in Rome.

Source: Booklet

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