Der Ring Des Nibelungen [Blu-ray] by Kultur Video

Description

The production of Wagner's Ring at the Bayreuth Festival is an event that takes place only once every six years. Bayreuth recordings of the complete cycle are very rare; this being only the second filmed version. The Kupfer/Barenboim Ring was performed over a five-year period and recorded at the conclusion when the Bayreuth Workshop had raised the quality of the performance to an almost unsurpassable level (Der Tagesspiegel)

In going back to the original high definition video masters and using cutting edge encoding technology, we are able to maximize the quality of this new presentation of the Ring. This, along with the larger 11 disc transfer, allows us to exploit the DVD standard to its fullest, and to also include three audio streams, LPCM, Dolby 5.1 and DTS 5.1.

Das Rheingold
John Tomlinson: Wotan
Bodo Brinkmann: Donner
Kurt Schreibmayer: Froh
Graham Clark : Loge
Gunter von Kannen: Alberich
Helmut Pampuch: Mime
Matthias Halle: Fasolt
Philip Kang: Fafner
Linda Finnie: Fricka
Eva Johansson: Freia
Annette Kattenbaum: Wellgunde
Jane Turner: Flosshilde

Die Walkure
Poul Elming: Siegmund
Nadine: Secunde Sieglinde
Matthias Halle: Hunding
John Tomlinson: Wotan
Anne Evans: Brunnhilde
Linda Finnie: Fricka/Siegrune
Eva Johansson: Gerhilde
Ruth Floeren: Ortlinde
Shirley Close: W altraute
Hitomi Katagiri: Schwertleite
Eva-Maria Bundschuh: Helmwige
Birgitta Svendann: Grimgerde
Hebe Dijkstra: Roaweiae

Siegfried
Siegfried Jerusalem: Siegfried
John Tomlinson: Der Wandererv Gunter von Kannen: Alberich
Philip Kang: Fafner
Graham Clark: Mime
Anne Evans: Brunnhilde
Birgitta Svendan: Erda
Hilde Leidland: Waldvogel

Gotterdammerung
Siegfried Jerusalem: Siegfried
Bodo Brinkmann: Gunther
Philip Kang: Hagen
Gunter von Kannen: Alberich
Anne Evans: Brunnhilde
Eva-Maria Bundschuh: Gutrune
Waltraud Meier: Waltraute
Birgitta Svendan: 1. Norn
Linda Finnie: 2. Norn
Uta Priew: 3. Norn
Hilde Leidland: Woglinde
Annette Kattenbaum: Wellgunde
Jane Turner: Flosshilde

Bonus feature (DVD 1)
Daniel Barenboim and John Tomlinson talk about the Harry Kupfer production of the Ring at Bayreuth in 1991 and 1992

Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele
Staged and directed by Harry Kupfer
Stage design: Hans Schavernoch
Costume design: Reinhard Heinrich
Video director: Horant H. Hohlfeld
Artistic supervision Wolfgang Wagner