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Wagner - Das Rheingold / Zagrosek, Probst, Schuster, Indridadottir, Ruuttunen, Stuttgart

Wagner (Actor), Wolfgang Probst (Actor) Rated:
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Format: DVD
2.3 out of 5 stars 7 customer reviews
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  • Actors: Wagner, Wolfgang Probst, Kaston, Schneider, Lothar Zagrosek
  • Format: Multiple Formats, Classical, Color, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated:
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  • Studio: TDK DVD
  • DVD Release Date: February 17, 2004
  • Run Time: 152 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00015EDMA
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #201,832 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3.0 out of 5 starsAmbitious RING gets off to a shaky start
By Yuval Sharon on March 12, 2004
For the courage to release an experimental production of the Ring for American distribution in a time of lackluster caution in the recording industry, EuroArts and TDK deserve the appreciation of Wagnerians nationwide. Stuttgart's innovative Ring-the initiative of Intendant Klaus Zehelein-divided the cycle among four different production teams, cumulatively offering a kind of cubist perspective on the whole. The goal, in Zehelein's words, was not only to consider each opera in the series its own individually "self-fulfilling story" but to precipitate a "Collapse of Totality." From the "ruins" of that collapse comes an unprecedented freedom not only for the artists involved but for the audience: each viewer has the chance to more or less build their own Ring from the different accents in the cycle. With this DVD release, a much wider audience is offered that freedom to discover the Ring from four new angles, and Wagner lovers everywhere should rejoice at the opportunity.
Unfortunately, this first installment-under the direction of Joachim Schlömer and designed by Jens Kilian-does not get this ambitious project off to the most successful start. Schlömer is Stuttgart's house choreographer, and Zehelein chose him to kick off the cycle because of the varying physicalities among Rheingold's population-giants, dwarves, gods, monsters, etc. It is disappointing, then, to see the physical dimensions of the characters so undernourished: not only in the sloppy pratfalls and aimless, unmotivated movement about the stage that make up the general choreography of the opera, but the individual characterizations betray little choreographic specificity.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsYou had better be familiar with the original
By F. Behrens HALL OF FAME on February 22, 2004
Maybe I am too picky, too traditional. One of the critics for a much-respected magazine viewed the EuroArts CD of the 2002 production by the Staatsoper Stuttgart of Wagner's "Das Rheingold" (20 5206 9 DVUS OPRDNR) and loved it. I just finished viewing it and found myself increasingly annoyed as it unfolded under a director who chose to ignore most of what the characters were singing in his modern-dress (how original!) setting of this epic from ancient Iceland and medieval Germany.
The concept was to place all the action in a single set, the lobby of a sanitarium-or possibly an insane asylum, and I would vote for the latter-with a large fountain in the middle which is supposed to be the Rhine. Wotan (Wolfgang Probst) and his wife (Michaela Schuster) are dressed like CEOs, the giants (Roland Bracht and Phillip Ens) are normal-sized contractors with briefcases, the fire god Loge (Robert Kunzli) is a slightly overweight person in no particular costume at all, and the three Rhinemaidens (Catrione Smith, Maria Theresa Ulrich and Margarete Joswig) hang around the lobby dressed in attractive black blouses and slacks and join in the family doings when they should be offstage under water.
Much mention is made of a helmet that is only a mirror in this production (the director unconvincingly explains why in the program notes), of a Valhalla that is nowhere in sight, of Wotan's spear that is also absent, and of piles of gold that are represented by a single sheet of chain mail. When the giants refer to poles around the goddess Freia (Helga Ros Indridadottir), there are none at all; and although she is standing in full view, they complain that she is not yet entirely hidden. It is all very silly-but the director got the audience's approval during curtain calls.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsSchlomer's Short Attention Span Rheingold!
By J P Falcon on February 22, 2004
This version of Das Rheingold is an example of a director who has no faith in Wagner's music or libretto and thus transforms the work into his own creation..I am generally open minded about a director's intervention in an opera, but Schlomer carries his vision to absurd directions which causes one to become distracted. If you are too busy scoffing at the nonsence you are witnessing, and trying to untie the visual knot that Schlomer thrusts upon you, rather than basking in the glorious music of Wagner, then the director has failed his charge. Schlomer has no faith that an audience can enjoy Das Rhiengold on its' own terms, and needlessly clutters the stage with unnecessary actions and worthless contrivances. I will admit that there were moments that I thought were well handled, such as Alberich's humiliation by the Rheinmaidens, Fasolt's devotion to Freia, and the wresting of the ring from Alberich. But these moments are far and few between. Schlomer apparantly believes that a 21st century audience for Wagner's Ring suffers from a short attention span, as he forces all the characters to remain on stage and perform useless and distracting actions while others are performing the opera. For example, Wotan is wondering where Loge is while all the time, the shlub is flitting all about in view...Loge is shown receiving a golden apple from Freia and eating it, despite the fact that he will eventually sing that Freia has been stingy giving him the apples. So we cut back to him from time to time eating his apple while the main action is occuring elsewhere. During Alberich's curse, a centerpiece in the opera, we need to see Wotan wash the ring in a sink and the camera shifts between Alberich and Wotan repeatedly during this crucial moment.Read more ›
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