Photograph by Koenbroos Verkleind
May 26: Das Rheingold begins La Scala’s long-awaited new production of Wagner’s four-opera epic, The Ring Cycle, all of which will be broadcast live worldwide via Opera in Cinema. Dresden-born René Pape, “the world’s most charismatic bass” (Opera News), makes his role debut as Wotan, the king of the gods. The artistic team behind the new production is headed by two all-stars: Belgian director Guy Cassiers has dazzled Europe with innovative new productions, and renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim is considered the perfect interpreter of Wagner’s lush music. Live broadcasts of The Ring will continue on December 7 with the next opera in the tetrology, Die Walküre.
Wagner’s Das Rheingold
Live from Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy
May 26, 2010 at 2pm EDT / 11am PDT
With encore performances that evening at 8pm EDT / 5pm PDT
Starring René Pape
Conducted by Daniel Barenboim
Directed by Guy Cassier
Participating U.S. venues:
Tucson, AZ – Loft Cinema
Apple Valley, CA – UltraStar Apple Valley
Encino, CA – Laemmle Town Center 5
Pasadena, CA – Laemmle’s Playhouse 7
West Hollywood, CA – Laemmle Sunset 5
Key West, FL – Tropic Cinema
Kansas City, KS – Legends 14
Gloucester, MA – Cape Ann Community Cinema
Baltimore, MD – Charles Theatre
Chesterfield, MO – Wehrenberg Galaxy 14
Toms River, NJ – Marquee Orchard 10
Farmington, NM – Allen Animas 10
Las Cruces, NM – Allen Cineport 10
Roswell, NM – Allen Galaxy 8
Las Vegas, NV – Rave Town Sq. 18
New York, NY – Symphony Space
Schenectady, NY – Proctor’s Theatre
Tulsa, OK – Circle Cinema – Pullman Square
Bryn Mawr, PA – Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Newport, RI – Jane Pickens Theater
Herndon, VA – Worldgate 9
Burlington, VT – Roxy Cinema
To find theaters and showtimes near you, enter your zip code or city in the search form at the top of the page.
Greg Rice | May 21, 2010 at 9:39 pm
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Ursule Yates | May 22, 2010 at 5:06 am
I am in Paris for the month. Is Das Rheingold being shown here?
jim centanni | May 24, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Why no showing of Das Reingold in the chicagoland area, Illinois?
ronald Bergan | May 27, 2010 at 6:17 am
I’ve never felt more like taking a shotgun to anyone as I did about the irritating and distracting ballet dancers. Without them, it would have been an extremely satisfying production, mainly musically. But the dancers spoiled it for me. At one stage Fricka pushes one of the dancers away. Pity she didn’t kick her. The whole point of the musical interludes was to allow the audience to listen to the descriptive music. It certainly didn’t need a group of ballet dancers waving their arms about. In a way, it was as if, as in Ariadne auf Naxos, two different productions had been booked at the same theatre at the same time. Wagner resisted ballet, but was forced to put ballet into the Paris production of Tannhauser. I hope that this is not the start of a Ring with the same director who continues the same concept throughout. Booo.
Brendan Quinn - Ireland | May 27, 2010 at 8:37 am
Saw it last night in Castlebar county Mayo – this is quite a stunning Rheingold – I couldn’t disagree with you more Ronal Bergan, this was one of the freshest most inspiring Rheingolds I have seen for many a year – now re the ballet dancers – can see some of the points you are making but please lets use our imagination and remember this is theatre – interpretation is allowed and certainly in the context of seeing this in the cinema version the ballet dancing worked very well, what it would have been like from the back seat of the gods then maybe questionable, on the whole though this was a truly memorable Rheingold, all of the male cast was particularly good. Pity there weren’t more people in our movie house – things may pick up for Tosca in terms of support.
sally abood | May 27, 2010 at 11:58 am
La Scala simulcast yesterday is the best Das Rheingold production that I have seen. Everything: cast, costumes, staging, all made the audience sit up and believe. Thank you. What was it about the whole experience that I could feel German WWII and Joseph Beuys as well as global corporate view of future. Amazing. Should be required for prisoners, wardens and politicians and preachers. I loved Wagner of the future.
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ronald Bergan | May 29, 2010 at 11:30 am
I’m pleased you enjoyed it, Brendan, but please don’t ask me to use my imagination. That is precisely what I had against the ubiquitous and irritating dancers, that they didn’t allow the audience to use their imaginations, especially during the orchestral interludes. Yes, Rene Pape and others were ridiculously good, therefore it was even more irritating to see what was going on around him. I dread seeing Sieglinde and Sigmund, who are supposed to be alone for a while in the first act of Walkure, having the love scene invaded by a whole lot of ridiculous ballet dancers.
annmarie fuller | June 15, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Well, darn, how would you feel if you didn’t get to see it at all? Why did Das Rheingold not appear here in
tucson? Probably not enough interest. At least we are getting a few other wonderful operas here. Can’t wait to
see Eugene Onegin with the Bolshoi Opera.
Timothy Russell Dewart | November 18, 2010 at 3:19 pm
I saw the HD film last evening in America and the singing was great, as was the orchestra. The set and projections were fine, but the gold imagery within the Rhine and as pieces on the set didn’t seem valuable or worth coveting. The most distracting thing was having dancers waving their arms and legs around the stage mirroring the emotions of what was being sung. While I support the idea that the arts can support each other, there were times in this production when the dancer or dancing was just superfluous and distracting to the power of the word, and music. It was clever when the dancers became a stool, a cage, etc., and some final tableau were very handsome. However, when statically staged singers are belting out song on either side of the stage and one bare skinned dancer is in the middle doing a solo interpretation, well, you may as well have had someone signing for the deaf, there, too. The corp de ballet did great work when they were alone on the stage, most impressive! Nonetheless, less would be more, in my opinion; some directorial editing was needed.