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X'çapåb(U ¼˙?2Íiµçž Ł 660170-71 bk Rheingold US 1/12/06 1:47 PM Page 16 WAGNER 2 CDs Recorded at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, Germany, on 28th September and 29th December, 2002. Das Rheingold Probst • Schuster • Ruuttunen • Lorenz • Künzli General Director: Prof. Klaus Zehelein Executive Producers: Dr Dietrich Mack and Paul Smaczny (SWR TV) Staatsoper Stuttgart • Staatsorchester Stuttgart Dr Reinhard Ermen (SWR Radio) Lothar Zagrosek Producer: Michael Sandner • Editor: Irmgard Bauer Engineers: Jürgen Buss and Karl-Heinz Runde This performance of Das Rheingold is the first part of Wagner’s Ring cycle recorded live during Stuttgart Opera’s 2002/2003 season. For the first time in the history of the Ring cycle each of the four operas was staged with separate producers and casts. A production of EuroArts, brilliant media/VIDEAL and SWR. 8.660170-71 16 660170-71 bk Rheingold US 1/12/06 1:47 PM Page 2 Das Rheingold Stuttgart Staatsorchester (The Rhinegold) The Württemberg Stuttgart State Orchestra has a history of over four hundred years, established in 1589 as the Preliminary Evening Court Orchestra of Württemberg. Over the generations there have been collaborations with musicians of distinction, among them Leonhard Lechner, the Frobergers, Niccolò Jommelli, Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, Konradin Kreutzer, of Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Carl Maria von Weber. Berlioz praised the orchestra, when he appeared with it as Der Ring des Nibelungen conductor, and in the 1880s Stuttgart was one of the first to stage the complete Ring cycle, conducted by the then (The Ring of the Nibelung) General Music Director Herman Zumpe, who had assisted Wagner at the first Bayreuth Festival. The tradition of by first performances has included the première of Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos in 1912, conducted by the composer, in Richard Wagner 1921 of a one-acter by Hindemith, and in recent times works by Orff, Penderecki, Glass, Zender, Riehm and Hölszky. In the twentieth century there was collaboration with Fritz Busch, Carl Leonhardt, Franz Konwitschny, (1813-1883) Hans Swarowsky and Herbert Albert, and in particular with Max von Schillings and Ferdinand Leitner, and in more recent years with conductors such as Carlos Kleiber, Vaclav Neumann, Silvio Varviso, Janos Kulka, Dennis Russell Gods Davies, Garcia Navarro und Gabriele Ferro as Music Directors and Conductor, and as guests, Georg Solti, Carlo Maria Giulini and Riccardo Chailly. Lothar Zagrosek took over the helm of the orchestra in 1997, and has been Wotan . Wolfgang Probst, Bass-baritone responsible for a number of important and innovative performances. In 2002 the orchestra was named Orchestra of Froh . Bernhard Schneider, Tenor the Year by Opernwelt. The work of the orchestra has included recordings and DVDs, in addition to symphony Donner . Motti Kastón, Baritone Loge . Robert Künzli, Tenor concerts and chamber music performed by members of the orchestra. Fricka . Michaela Schuster, Mezzo-soprano Freia . Helga Rós Indridadóttir, Soprano Erda . Mette Ejsing, Contralto Nibelungs Lothar Zagrosek Alberich . Esa Ruuttunen, Bass-baritone Lothar Zagrosek has been General Music Director of the Stuttgart Staatsoper since 1997 and from August 2006 is to Mime . Eberhard Francesco Lorenz, Tenor be Principal Conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. He studied with Hans Swarowsky, István Kertész, Bruno Maderna and Herbert von Karajan, and was appointed Principal Conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Giants Orchestra in 1982, followed by appointments as Musical Director of the Paris Grand Opéra, Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and General Music Director of Leipzig Opera. His career as a Fasolt . Roland Bracht, Bass conductor has taken him, among other engagements, to Vienna and Hamburg State Operas, the Deutsche Oper Fafner . Phillip Ens, Bass Berlin, Frankfurt Opera, the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Glyndebourne, the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna and Berlin Festival Weeks, the Munich Opera Festival and the London Promenade Concerts. Since 1995 he has Rhinemaidens been first Guest Conductor and Artistic Adviser to the German Youth Philharmonic and a regular guest with the orchestras of Bavarian Radio, West German Radio, NHK in Tokyo, the Orchestre Philharmonique of Radio France, Woglinde . Catriona Smith, Soprano and the RAI Orchestra in Turin. He was named by Opernwelt as Conductor of the Year in 1997 and 1999. Wellgunde . Maria Theresa Ullrich, Mezzo-soprano Floßhilde . Margarete Joswig, Mezzo-soprano Staatsoper Stuttgart • Staatsorchester Stuttgart Lothar Zagrosek 8.660170-71 2 15 8.660170-71 660170-71 bk Rheingold US 1/12/06 1:47 PM Page 14 Phillip Ens CD 1 72:14 The Canadian bass Phillip Ens studied in Montreal and made his operatic début in 1985 as the Marchese di Calatrava in La 1 Vorspiel (Prelude) 4:28 @ Sanft schloß Schlaf dein Aug’! 2:38 Forza del Destino for the Manitoba Opera. Subsequently he made numerous appearances with the Montreal, Vancouver, (Fasolt, Wotan) Edmonton and Manitoba Operas including rôles such as Sarastro and The Speaker in Die Zauberflöte, Colline in La Scene 1: In the Depths of the Rhine Bohème, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Banco in Macbeth, the King in Aida, Masetto in Don Giovanni and Don Basilio in Il # Was sagst du? Ha! Sinn’st du Verrath? 5:11 barbiere di Siviglia. He appeared in title rôle in Le nozze de Figaro with the Pacific Opera, Frère Laurence in Roméo et 2 Weia! Waga! Woge, du Welle 1:16 (Fasolt, Fafner, Wotan) Juliette with the Calgary Opera, Don Basilio at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and made his Canadian Opera Company (Rhinemaidens) début as Don Fernando in Fidelio. He made his stage début in the United States in 1989 with the Philadelphia Orchestra $ Du da folge uns! 1:42 singing Colline. Other appearances in the United States were with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, and Denver, 3 Hehe! ihr Nicker 1:25 (Fafner, Freia, Froh, Donner, Wotan, Fricka) Pittsburgh, and Austin Lyric Operas. He has been a frequent guest soloist with orchestras in Canada and in Europe and from (Alberich, Rhinemaidens) 1993-2000 was a principal bass with the Staastheater Stuttgart, where his rôles included Sarastro, Sparafucile, Banco, % Endlich Loge! Eiltest du so 3:49 Colline, the Commendatore, the Hermit in Der Freischütz and his highly applauded Pimen in a new production of Boris 4 Garstig glatter glitschriger Glimmer! 8:29 (Wotan, Loge, Froh, Donner) Godunov. His Wagnerian rôles there have included those of Fafner and Hunding. He has appeared in this last rôle at the (Alberich, Rhinemaidens) Metropolitan Opera New York, where he has also appeared as the Commendatore and as Tiresias in Oedipus Rex. His ^ Immer ist Undank Loges Lohn! 6:48 career has also taken him to Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the 5 Lugt, Schwestern! Die Weckerin lacht (Loge, Wotan, Fasolt, Fafner, Fricka) Nederlandse Opera, the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin and the Hamburgische Staatsoper, with further appearances at the Paris in den Grund 4:41 Bastille, the Bayerische Staatsoper, at La Monnaie Brussels, the English National Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Welsh (Rhinemaidens, Alberich) & Ein Runenzauber zwingt das Gold zum Reif 3:13 National Opera as Claggart in Billy Budd, the Festwochen in Vienna, and other leading houses. (Loge, Wotan, Froh, Donner, Fricka, Fafner) 6 Nur wer der Minne Macht entsagt 1:48 Catriona Smith (Rhinemaidens, Alberich) * Hör’ Wotan, der Harrenden Wort! 1:51 (Fafner, Wotan, Fasolt, Freia) Catriona Smith completed her studies in 1986 at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, before spending a year 7 Der Welt Erbe gewann’ich zu eigen durch dich? 1:47 at the Opera Studio of the University of Toronto. She made her début at Covent Garden in 1990, appeared with Scottish (Alberich, Rhinemaidens) ( Schwester! Brüder! Rettet! 4:59 Opera as Gretel and as Dalila, and made guest appearances as Sophie at the Berlin Deutsche Oper, in San Francisco as (Freia, Froh, Donner, Loge) Morgana and as the First Niece in Peter Grimes in Amsterdam. Since 1991 she has been a member of Stuttgart Opera, 8 Haltet den Räuber! 3:03 appearing there as Colombina in Haydn’s Die Feuersbrunst, in the title-rôle of Dinescu’s Eréndira, as Zerlina, Papagena, (Rhinemaidens) ) Wotan, Gemahl, unsel’ger Mann! 1:52 Pamina, the Naiad in Ariadne auf Naxos, Nanetta in Falstaff, Gilda, Gretel and Ännchen, and as Norina in I pazzi per (Fricka, Wotan, Loge, Donner, Froh) progetto. Other rôles include those of Olympia, the Celestial Voice in Don Carlo, Sophie, Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare in Scene 2: Open Region on the Mountain Peaks Egitto, Konstanze, and Lilla in Una cosa rara, followed by Morgana in Alcina, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, First Lady ¡ Verwandlungsmusik 2:37 in Die Zauberflöte and Coryphée in Alceste. In 2003 she was named Kammersängerin of the Stuttgart State Opera. 9 Einleitung (Introduction) (Music for the Change of Scene) Maria Theresa Ullrich 0 Wotan, Gemahl, erwache! 6:53 Scene 3: Nibelheim (Fricka, Wotan) Maria Theresa Ullrich studied at the Berg Vocal Institute in Gummersbach and has been a member of Stuttgart Opera ™ Hehe! Hehe! Hieher! Hieher! Tückischer Zwerg! 0:46 since 1998. At the Youth Opera there she took the rôle of the child in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges, making her début ! So schirme sie jetzt 1:52 (Alberich, Mime) at the opera-house as Polina in The Queen of Spades. She followed this with Fyodor in Boris Godunov, Hänsel, (Fricka, Freia, Wotan) Fortuna/Speranza in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria and Annio in La clemenza di Tito, with Cristina in I pazzi per progetto, the Page in Salome, Nireno in Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Emilia in Otello, and Christa in The Makropoulos Case. She took the rôle of Speranza in Orfeo, Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Flora Bervoix in La traviata, Grimgerde in Die Walküre, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Second Maidservant in Elektra.
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