Bayreuth premiere casts of the Rheingold

The Rheingold was the very first performance in the then new Bayreuth Festival Hall on August 13, 1876

The Bayreuth premiere cast of the Rheingold list the participants in the new productions of Richard Wagner's music drama Das Rheingold , the evening before the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen , including the Bayreuth premiere, which took place on August 13, 1876 at the first Bayreuth Festival .

To the performance history

The first performance of the Rheingold took place on September 22, 1869 in Munich , at the express order of King Ludwig II of Bavaria . Wagner demonstratively stayed away from the performance. The King did not even invite Wagner to rehearse the Valkyrie the following year, although this time he pleaded for it.

The Rheingold is - next to the Walküre - the most frequently performed section of the tetralogy, on the one hand because of its shortness of just over two hours, on the other hand because ring projects are repeatedly canceled after the previous evening and the first evening - such as the Wiener Ring production of 1981 Filippo Sanjust , the Basel project by Hans Hollmann or in 2005 the Ring project by Francesca Zambello at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

Premiere casts

In the sixth column the number of performances of the respective production is given. The specified number of performances describes the status as of June 2020.

Wotan Donner Glad	Lodge Alberich Mime	Fasolt Fafner	Fricka Freia Erda	Woglinde Wellgunde Flosshilde
First performance , August 13, 1876, staging: Richard Wagner , conductor: Hans Richter , sets: Josef Hoffmann , costumes: Carl Emil Doepler
Franz Betz Eugen Gura Georg Unger	Heinrich Vogl Karl Hill Max Schlosser	Albert Eilers Franz von Reichenberg	Friederike Grün Marie Haupt Luise Jaide	Lilli Lehmann Marie Lehmann Minna Lammert	3
New production , 1896, production: Cosima Wagner , conductor: Hans Richter , Felix Mottl , Siegfried Wagner , set design: Max Brückner , Paul von Joukowsky (until 1931)
Carl Perron Hans Thomasczek Alois Burgstaller	Heinrich Vogl Fritz Friedrichs Hans Breuer	Ernst Wachter Johannes Elmblad	Marie Brema Marion Weed Ernestine Schumann-Heink	Josefine from Artner Katharina Rösing Olive Fremstad	41
Heinz Tietjen , 1933, conductor: Karl Elmendorff , equipment: Emil Preetorius , Kurt Palm (until 1942)
Rudolf Bockelmann Gotthold Ditter Martin Kremer	Fritz Wolff Robert Burg Erich Zimmermann	Ivar Andresen Emanuel List	Sigrid Onegin Käthe Heidersbach Enid Szántho	Marcelle Bunlet Hildegard Weigel Margery Booth	18th
Wieland Wagner , July 31, 1951, conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch , set design: Wieland Wagner , costumes: Ingrid Jorissen (until 1958)
Sigurd Björling Werner Faulhaber Wolfgang Windgassen	Walter Fritz Heinrich Plantl Paul Kuën	Ludwig Weber Frederik Dalberg	Elisabeth Höngen Paula Brivkalne Ruth Siewert	Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Lore Wissmann Hertha Töpper	40
Wolfgang Wagner , July 26, 1960, conductor: Rudolf Kempe , set design: Wolfgang Wagner, costumes: Kurt Palm (until 1964)
Hermann Uhde Thomas Stewart Georg Paskuda	Gerhard Stolze Otakar Kraus Herold Kraus	Arnold van Mill Peter Roth-Ehrang	Hertha Töpper Ingrid Bjoner Marga Höffgen	Dorothea Siebert Claudia Hellmann Sona Cervená	8th
Wieland Wagner , July 25, 1965, conductor: Karl Böhm , set design: Wieland Wagner , costumes: Kurt Palm (until 1969)
Theo Adam Gerd Nienstedt William Olvis	Wolfgang Windgassen Gustav Neidlinger Erwin Wohlfahrt	Martti Talvela Kurt Böhme	Ursula Boese Anja Silja Lili Chookasian	Dorothea Siebert Helga Dernesch Kerstin Meyer	12
Wolfgang Wagner , July 26, 1970, conductor: Horst Stein , set design: Wolfgang Wagner, costumes: Kurt Palm (until 1975)
Thomas Stewart Gerd Nienstedt René Kollo	Hermin Esser Gustav Neidlinger Georg Paskuda	Karl Ridderbusch Bengt Rundgren	Janis Martin Margarita Kyriaki Marga Höffgen	Hannelore Bode Inger Paustian Sylvia Anderson	16
Patrice Chéreau , July 24, 1976, conductor: Pierre Boulez , set design: Richard Peduzzi , costumes: Jacques Schmidt , lighting: Manfred Voss (until 1980)
Donald McIntyre Jerker Arvidson Heribert Steinbach	Heinz Zednik Zoltán Kelemen Wolf Appel	Matti Salminen Bengt Rundgren	Eva Randová Rachel Yakar Ortrun Wenkel	Yoko Kawahara Ilse Gramatzki Adelheid Krauss	17th
Peter Hall , July 25, 1983, conductor: Sir Georg Solti , set designer: William Dudley (until 1986)
Siegmund Nimsgern Heinz-Jürgen Demitz Maldwyn Davies	Manfred Jung Hermann Becht Peter Haage	Manfred Schenk Dieter Schweikart	Doris Soffel Anita Soldh Anne Gjevang	Agnes Habereder Diana Montague Birgitta Svendén	13
Harry Kupfer , July 27, 1988, conductor: Daniel Barenboim , set design: Hans Schavernoch , costumes: Jacques Schmidt , lighting: Manfred Voss (until 1992)
John Tomlinson Bodo Brinkmann Kurt Schreibmayer	Graham Clark Günter from Kannen Helmut Pampuch	Matthias Hölle Philip Kang	Linda Finnie Eva Johansson Anne Gjevang	Hilde Leidland Annette Küttenbaum Jane Turner	16
Alfred Kirchner , July 26, 1994, conductor: James Levine , set design: Rosalie , lighting: Manfred Voss (until 1998)
John Tomlinson Falk Struckmann Richard Brunner	Siegfried Jerusalem Ekkehard Wlaschiha Manfred Jung	René Pape Eric Halfvarson	Hanna Schwarz Nina Stemme Birgitta Svendén	Joyce Guyer Sarah Fryer Jane Turner	16
Jürgen Flimm , July 26th 2000, conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli , choir master: Eberhard Friedrich ; Stage design: Erich Wonder , costumes: Florence von Gerkan (until 2004)
Alan Titus Hans-Joachim Ketelsen Roland carriage driver	Kim Begley Günter from Kannen Michael Howard	Johann Tilli Philip Kang	Birgit Remmert Ricarda Merbeth Mette Ejsing	Dorothee Jansen Natascha Petrinsky Laura Nykänen	16
Tankred Dorst , July 26, 2006, conductor: Christian Thielemann , choir master: Eberhard Friedrich ; Stage design: Frank Philipp Schlößmann , costumes: Bernd Ernst Skodzig (until 2010)
Falk Struckmann Ralf Lukas Clemens Bieber	Arnold Bezuyen Andrew Shore Gerhard Siegel	Kwangchul Youn Jyrki Korhonen	Michelle Breedt Satu Vihavainen Mihoko Fujimura	Fionnuala McCarthy Ulrike Helzel Marina Prudenskaja	16
Frank Castorf , July 26, 2013, conductor: Kirill Petrenko , set design: Aleksandar Denić , costumes: Adriana Braga Peretzki , lighting: Rainer Casper , video: Andreas Deinert , Jens Crull (until 2017)
Wolfgang Koch Oleksandr Pushniak Lothar Odinius	Norbert Ernst Martin Winkler Burkhard Ulrich	Günther Groissböck Sorin Coliban	Claudia Mahnke Elisabet Strid Nadine Weissmann	Mirella Hagen Julia Rutigliano Okka from Damerau	16
Valentin Schwarz , July 27, 2020, conductor: Pietari Inkinen , stage: Andrea Cozzi , costumes: Andy Visit , lighting: Reinhard Traub , dramaturgy: Konrad Kuhn ( COVID-19 postponed to 2022 )
Günther Groissböck Raimund Nolte Magnus Vigilius	Stefan Vinke John Lundgren Arnold Bezuyen	Ain Anger Wilhelm Schwinghammer	Christa Mayer Regine Hangler Wiebke Lehmkuhl	Lea-ann Dunbar Stephanie Houtzeel Simone Schröder

swell

• The Rheingold , productions
• Wagner Germania

Individual evidence

1. ^ BR Klassik: ... and Richard Wagner was not there , accessed on June 27, 2020