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Das Rheingold-16 September 1991 Evening 8.00pm

Opera: Performance details

Company: The Royal Opera
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Original season
Conductor Bernard Haitink
Chorus Master Stephen Wilder
Leader Bradley Creswick
Cast
Rhinedaughter Woglinde Gillian Webster
Rhinedaughter Wellgunde Monica Groop
Rhinedaughter Flosshilde Jane Turner
Alberich
a Nibelung dwarf 		Ekkehard Wlaschiha
Fricka Helga Dernesch
Wotan
her husband and leader of the gods 		James Morris
Freia
Fricka's sister 		Deborah Riedel
Fasolt
a giant 		Gwynne Howell
Fafner
a giant 		Franz-Josef Selig
Froh
Freia's brother 		Kim Begley
Donner
Freia's brother 		Donald Maxwell
Loge
god of fire 		Kenneth Riegel
Mime
a Nibelung dwarf, Alberich's brother 		Alexander Oliver
Erda
earth-goddess 		Anne Gjevang
Nibelungs
Children from St Clement Danes School (Drury Lane)
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Notes: Surtitles based on a text by Barry Millington and Stewart Spencer.
Language: German
Surtitled by: Stewart Spencer
Durations: Entire work: 8.06-10.40pm
Information source: Royal Opera House cast sheet for 16 September 1991(in Royal Opera House Collections)