Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold - Prelude - Sir Georg Solti - Fritz Lang #classicalmusic

Das Rheingold, The Rhinegold, WWV 86A, is the first of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 22 September 1869, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, on 13 August 1876. Here is the prelude. In the video are parts of “Siegfried“ which is part of “Die Nibelungen“ (“The Nibelungs“) a two-part series of silent fantasy films created by Austrian director Fritz Lang in 1924 - for the German UFA - consisting of Die Nibelungen: Siegfried and Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge. The scenarios for both films were co-written by Lang’s then-wife Thea von Harbou, based upon the epic poem Nibelungenlied written around AD 1200. Die Nibelungen received its UK premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in London, where it played for 40 performances between 29th of April and 20th of June 1924. Siegfried was released in the United States on 23rd of August 1925, premiering at the Century Theatre in New York City in the short-lived Phonofilm sound-on-film process. Kriemhild’s Revenge was released in the U.S. in 1928. Paul Richter as Siegfried the dragon slayer, Margarete Schön as Kriemhild. Cinematography: Carl Hoffmann, Gunther Rittau and Walter Ruttmann. Directed by Fritz Lang - 1924. Author: Richard Wagner - 1876. Conductor: Sir Georg Solti Wiener Philharmoniker ℗ Decca Classics; ℗ 2022 Universal Music Operations Limited Released on: 2022-11-11 Video created by Torsten Lang OMCLA/LAVA 2023. #classicalmusic #classicmusic #richardwagner