UPC 032031475571

• ISBN: 978-0-7697-9238-5
• Color
• Running Time: 917 minutes
• Subtitles: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish
• Sound: LPCM/Dolby 5.1/DTS

The production of Wagner's Ring at the Bayreuth Festival is an event that takes place only once every six years. Bayreuth recordings of the complete cycle are very rare; this being only the second filmed version. The Kupfer/Barenboim Ring was performed over a five-year period and recorded at the conclusion when the Bayreuth Workshop had raised the quality of the performance to an almost unsurpassable level In going back to the original high definition video masters and using cutting edge encoding technology, we are able to maximize the quality of this new presentation of the Ring. This, along with the larger 11 disc transfer, allows us to exploit the DVD standard to its fullest, and to also include three audio streams, LPCM, Dolby 5.1 and DTS 5.1. Das Rheingold, John Tomlinson: Wotan, Bodo Brinkmann: Donner, Kurt Schreibmayer: Froh, Graham Clark : Loge, Gunter von Kannen: Alberich, Helmut Pampuch: Mime, Matthias Halle: Fasolt, Philip Kang: Fafner, Linda Finnie: Fricka, Eva Johansson: Freia, Annette Kattenbaum: Wellgunde, Jane Turner: Flosshilde Die Walkure, Poul Elming: Siegmund, Nadine: Secunde Sieglinde, Matthias Halle: Hunding, John Tomlinson: Wotan, Anne Evans: Brunnhilde, Linda Finnie: Fricka/Siegrune, Eva Johansson: Gerhilde, Ruth Floeren: Ortlinde, Shirley Close: W altraute, Hitomi Katagiri: Schwertleite, Eva-Maria Bundschuh: Helmwige , Birgitta Svendann: Grimgerde, Hebe Dijkstra: Roaweiae Siegfried, Siegfried Jerusalem: Siegfried, John Tomlinson: Der Wandererv Gunter von Kannen: Alberich, Philip Kang: Fafner, Graham Clark: Mime, Anne Evans: Brunnhilde, Birgitta Svendan: Erda, Hilde Leidland: Waldvogel Gotterdammerung, Siegfried Jerusalem: Siegfried, Bodo Brinkmann: Gunther, Philip Kang: Hagen, Gunter von Kannen: Alberich, Anne Evans: Brunnhilde, Eva-Maria Bundschuh: Gutrune, Waltraud Meier: Waltraute, Birgitta Svendan: 1. Norn, Linda Finnie: 2. Norn, Uta Priew: 3. Norn, Hilde Leidland: Woglinde, Annette Kattenbaum: Wellgunde, Jane Turner: Flosshilde Bonus feature , Daniel Barenboim and John Tomlinson talk about the Harry Kupfer production of the Ring at Bayreuth in 1991 and 1992 Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Staged and directed by Harry Kupfer, Stage design: Hans Schavernoch, Costume design: Reinhard Heinrich, Video director: Horant H. Hohlfeld, Artistic supervision Wolfgang Wagner