Ring Cycle Opéra National du Rhin

Ring Cycle

Wagner’s Ring Cycle was performed at the Opera National Du Rhin Strasbourg directed by Sir David McVicar. The four operas took five years to make with the same creative team throughout and received the Grand Prix for Outstanding Achievement in Opera in 2011.

Das Rhinegold
Das Rhinegold introduces the Gods. The Gods are masked representing god created in man's image and ultimately the removal of their masks reveals what lies behind the godhead, mortality and vulnerability.

Nibelungen and Mime

Alberich transforms in to a many headed serpent

Fasolt and Fafner

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Wotan

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Donner

Freia

Froh

The Gods cross the Rainbow bridge to Walhalla

Die Walkure
We meet Siegfried and the Walkure with their spirit horse soldiers

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Hunding's castle

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The Pantheon of the Gods

Siegfried
We meet Siegfried in an enchanted forest

A cave where Mime and Siegfried live / Metal Forge

Enormous spikey forest

Erda is rolled inside a fossilised stone

Wood bird

Gotterdammerung

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The Norns weave their net of prayers

Brunhildes Rock

Outside the Gibichung's Castle

The Banks of the Rhine

Siegfried's murder

Pantheon of the Gods crashes to earth, burning

Erda looks on, the Gods masks and their power are incinerated

The world burns