Munich's Rheingold: beautiful, but leaves many questions

By Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 22 February 2015

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Reviewed at Nationaltheater, Munich on 20 February 2015

Wagner, Das Rheingold

Bavarian State Opera

Kirill Petrenko, Conductor

Andreas Kriegenburg, Director

Andrea Schraad, Costume Designer

Harald Thor, Set Designer

Golda Schultz, Freia

Jennifer Johnston, Wellgunde

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Woglinde

Okka von der Damerau, Erda

Nadine Weissmann, Flosshilde

Elisabeth Kulman, Fricka

Dean Power, Froh

Norbert Ernst, Loge

Andreas Conrad, Mime

Tomasz Konieczny, Alberich

Levente Molnár, Donner

Thomas Johannes Mayer, Wotan

Christof Fischesser, Fafner

Günther Groissböck, Fasolt

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Ilana Walder-Biesanz

Ilana Walder-Biesanz is a product manager for Yahoo, a theatre and opera critic, and a classically trained mezzo-soprano. She explored theater and opera stagings as a Gates Scholar at Cambridge and as a Fulbright Scholar in Germany. She currently writes for Bachtrack, San Francisco Classical Voice, and Stark Insider. Twitter: @ilana_wb.