Stefan Herheim - Wagner: Gotterdammerung - BLU-RAY

Gotterdammerung ('Twilight of the Gods') is the final opera of Wagner's epic tetralogy InchDer Ring des NibelungenInch ('The Ring of the Nibelung') in which his visionary masterpiece reaches it's cataclysmic conclusion. Betrayal and death, murder and remorse, lie at the opera's heart, in a work that draws together every plot element in writing of blazing intensity. As the ring is restored to the Rhinemaidens, the age of the gods ends, with the opera offering the certainty of destruction but the consolation of renewal. Staged by the award-winning director Stefan Herheim, this innovative new production from Deutsche Oper Berlin features a leading international cast conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles. The includes InchMaking OfInch documentary featuring interviews with Stefan Herheim and Sir Donald Runnicles, and behind the scenes footage.

Lance Ryan, Raff Lukas, Matti Salminen, Franz-Josef Kapellmann, Jennifer Wilson, and Elisabete Matos star in this production of the Wagner opera with Zubin Mehta conducting the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana.

Raising the curtain on a work of superlatives the Staatsoper Unter den Linden represents the ultimate challenge for any opera house, Wagner's InchDer Ring des NibelungenInch. Christian Thielemann conducts the Ring tetralogy, and Dmitri Tcherniakov, highly praised for his psychologically sophisticated productions, led the playful all-star ensemble coherently through the panorama of characters, situations and events that unfolded like a universe and consistently interpreted the sheer vastness and the manifold twists and turns of the Ring cosmos. InchMusically, this 'Ring' blew away everything that had gone before - and we are talking about a performance history of more than one hundred years.Inch (Die Welt) In the third part of his Ring tetralogy, Wagner incorporates fairy-tale motifs into his epic mythological story. The well-known tale of InchThe Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn FearInch is echoed in InchSiegfriedInch as well as episodes from the medieval InchNibelungenliedInch. InchAndreas Schager - a heroic tenor like the world is looking for.Inch (Berliner Morgenpost)