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Das Rheingold

Title
Das Rheingold / Richard Wagner ; executive producer, Peter Gelb ; stage production, Otto Schenk.
Publication
Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon, ℗1991, ©1990.

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StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Film, Slide, etc.Use in library VDISC 25Off-site

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Additional Authors
  • Gelb, Peter.
  • Schenk, Otto, 1933-
  • Morris, James, 1947-
  • Jerusalem, Siegfried.
  • Wlaschiha, Ekkehard.
  • Zednik, Heinz.
  • Rootering, Jan-Hendrik, 1950-
  • Salminen, Matti.
  • Ludwig, Christa.
  • Häggander, Mari Anne.
  • Svendén, Birgitta.
  • Levine, James, 1943-2021
  • Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
  • Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) prf
Description
2 videodiscs (281 min.) : sound, color; 12 in.
Summary
This prologue to Wagner's "Ring cycle" tells the story of the magic gold, which, when forged into a ring, gives its wearer power over the world.
Subject
Operas
Genre/Form
  • Documentary films.
  • Documentaires.
  • video recordings (physical artifacts)
Note
  • Opera.
  • Sung in German, with English subtitles.
  • Parallel titles in English, French, and Italian on container back.
  • "A Metropolitan Opera Television Production, in association with La Sept, Channel 4, ORF, Deutsche Grammophon" -- Program notes, p. 4.
  • Recorded on 3 sides only.
  • In stereo; digital recording.
  • NTSC; extended play; CLV.
  • Cast and partial credits on container; program notes in English by John Deathridge, and in French translated from the German of Karl Dietrich Gräwe and Peter Wapnewski, and synopsis in English and French translated from the German of Gräwe (16 p. : ill.) laid in container.
Credits (note)
  • Günther Schneider-Siemssen, set and projection design ; Rolf Langenfass, costume design ; Gil Wechsler, lighting design.
Event (note)
  • Recorded March and April 1990, at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.
OCLC
  • on1340606506
  • 25855493
  • SCSB-2057883
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library