Das Rheingold is the prologue to Wagner's Ring cycle, and opens up the rich world of gods, dwarves, giants, dragons and humans that the story inhabits.

With beautiful orchestration and an unerring sense of the dramatic, the first opera explains how the Rhinedaughters came to lose the Ring and how it fel into the hands of Alberich the Nibelung; Wotan, king of the gods; and Fafner the giant. Each time it changes hands, the Ring confers upon the bearer a curse and this pattern is set to continue until it is restored to its rightful owners, the daughters of the Rhine.

Composer     Richard Wagner
Conductor      Zubin Mehta
Staged By      Carlos Padrissa
Set                   Roland Olbeter
Costumes     Chu Uroz
Soloists          German Villar, Ilya Bannik, John Daszak, Matti Salminen, Juha Uusitalo
Orchestra       Orquestra de la Comunitat Vale
Video Director     Tiziano Mancini