Welser-Möst begins his Ring farewell with a rousing Rheingold

Michael Nagy (Alberich)

Michael Laurenz (Loge) and Eric Owens (Wotan)

Matthäus Schmidlechner (Mime)

Michael Laurenz (Loge) and Michael Nagy (Alberich)

By George Jahn, 22 June 2023

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“Welser-Most's... interpretation shone as brightly as the gold of the Nibelungs”

Reviewed at Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna on 21 June 2023

Wagner, Das Rheingold

Vienna State Opera

Franz Welser-Möst, Conductor

Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Director

Rolf Glittenberg, Set Designer

Marianne Glittenberg, Costume Designer

Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

Friedrich Zorn, Video

Eric Owens, Wotan

Michael Laurenz, Loge

Michael Nagy, Alberich

Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Fricka

Regine Hangler, Freia

Daniel Jenz, Froh

Martin Häßler, Donner

Ilja Kazakov, Fasolt

Ain Anger, Fafner

Matthäus Schmidlechner, Mime

Noa Beinart, Erda

Ileana Tonca, Woglinde

Alma Neuhaus, Wellgunde

Daria Sushkova, Flosshilde

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George Jahn

George Jahn is the former Vienna bureau chief of The Associated Press. During his 35-year career at the global news organization, he covered wars, politics... and opera, reviewing productions at the Vienna State Opera, the Salzburg Festival, Bayreuth Festival and other houses in Austria and Germany. He has also written for Opera Now and International Piano magazines in London. Those he has interviewed include Matthias Goerne, Vesselina Kasarova, Thomas Hampson and Mariss Jansons. George holds or shares awards for his reporting on U.N. affairs and for his coverage of the Bosnian war. A Canadian/Hungarian citizen, he splits his time between residences in Vienna and Budapest.

Franz Welser-Möst begins his Ring farewell with a rousing Rheingold at the Staatsoper