Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold HISTORY Premiere Königlich Hof-und Nationaltheater, München, September 22, 1869, with the following cast: Wotan, August Kindermann; Loge, Heinrich Vogl; Donner, Karl Samuel Heinrich; Froh, Franz Nachbaur; Fricka, Sophie Stehle; Freia, Henriette Muller; Erda, Emma Seehofer; Mime, Max Schlosser; Alberich, Karl Fischer; Fasolt, Toni Petzer; Fafner, Kaspar Bausewein; Woglinde, Anna Kaufmann; Wellgunde, Therese Vogl; Flosshilde, Wilhelmine Ritter First performance as part of Der Ring des Nibelungen Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, August 13, 1876 United States Premiere The Metropolitan Opera, New York, January 4, 1889 Last Performed by Washington National Opera March-April, 2006 in the Kennedy Center Opera House, featuring Heinz Fricke conducting and Francesca Zambello directing with the following cast: Wotan, Robert Hale; Loge, Robin Leggate; Donner, Detlef Roth; Froh, Corey Evan Rotz; Fricka, Elizabeth Bishop; Freia, Jane Ohmes; Erda, Elena Zaremba; Mime, Gary Rideout; Alberich, Gordon Hawkins; Fasolt, John Marcus Bindel; Fafner, Jeffrey Wells; Woglinde, JiYoung Lee; Wellgunde, Frédérique Vézina; Flosshilde, Jennifer Hines Selected Operas by Wagner Die Hochzeit (1832), 1938, Leipzig (fragment) Die Feen (1834), June 29, 1888, Munich Das Liebesverbot , March 29, 1836, Magdeburg. Also known as Die Novize von Palermo Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen , October 20, 1842, Dresden Der fliegende Holländer , June 2, 1843, Dresden Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg , October 19, 1845, Dresden Lohengrin , August 28, 1850, Weimar Tristan und Isolde (1859), June 10, 1865, Munich Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg [rev], March 13, 1861, Opéra, Paris Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , June 21, 1868, Munich Der Ring des Nibelungen , August 13-17, 1876, Festspielhaus, Bayreuth: Das Rheingold (1854), September 22, 1869, Munich Die Walküre (1856), June 26, 1870, Munich Siegfried (1869), August 16, 1876, Festspielhaus, Bayreuth Götterdämmerung , August 17, 1876, Festspielhaus, Bayreuth Parsifal , July 26, 1882, Festspielhaus, Bayreuth Washington National Opera www.dc-opera.org 202.295.2400 · 800.US.OPERA .