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The Linz Ring begins: Das Rheingold or The Doors to Valhalla

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Reviewed at Landestheater, Linz on 8 May 2015
Wagner, Das Rheingold
Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor
Uwe Eric Laufenberg, Director
Antje Sternberg, Costume Designer
Gisbert Jäkel, Set Designer
Gerd Grochowski, Wotan
Michael Bedjai, Loge
Karen Robertson, Fricka
Sonja Gornik, Freia
Seho Chang, Donner
Iurie Ciobanu, Froh
Bernadett Fodor, Erda
Bjørn Waag, Alberich
Matthäus Schmidlechner, Mime
Dominik Nekel, Fasolt
Nikolai Galkin, Fafner
Claudia Braun-Tietje, Woglinde
Gotho Griesmeier, Wellgunde
Valentina Kutzarova, Flosshilde
Bruckner Orchester Linz
Uwe Eric Laufenberg’s Bayreuth take on Parsifal
****1
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***11
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Götterdammerung or The Ring returns to the Rhine
***11
The Linz Ring: Siegfried or Whither Wotan?
***11
Die Walküre or Wotan’s double dilemma
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