Das Rheingold (1990)

From the gorgeous scene deep in the river Rhine that opens the opera up to the magic Rainbow Bridge that appears at the end leading to a glistening Valhalla Otto Schenks production captures the scenic world of Wagners Ring as brilliantly as James Levine and the Met orchestra capture the musical world The cast is incomporable an astounding James Morris as the young god Wotan the great Christa Ludwig as his wife Fricka incandescent Siegfried Jerusalem as Loge the wily god of fire and Ekkehard Wlaschiha as a complex Alberich