Wagner, Richard - Rheingold, Das - Mehta, Zubin (conductor)
- La Fura dels Baus, famous for their opening ceremony of the Olympic games in Barcelona and opera stagings in Salzburg, Ruhrtriennale, etc., use in Rheingold 3D computer projections that evoke computer games, organic structures built of athletic performers that recall the "Cirque du soleil".
- From Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia, 2007.
- Incl. world-class Wagner singers such as Salminen, Kapellmann, Mayer and promising young talents that include John Daszak (Loge) and Juha Uusitalo (Wotan), whom the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung hailed as a new "Number One among the opera gods."
Press Quotes
"In this production the visual codes of the digital era become elemental and dazzlingly employed means of narration" (Opernwelt)
"...quite a spectacle"..."brilliantly sung"
(Sunday Times)