Wagner – and not boring? If you don’t believe it, you should treat yourself to Loriot’s „Ring on one Evening“. Instead of sixteen hours of a “world-theatre” marathon in four instalments you can learn in four hours everything you need to know about the theft of the Rhine gold, the ominous power of the Ring, sibling love, fathers and daughters, beefy children of nature and the imminent end of the world. Compressed with a wink in his eye, the humorist Loriot’s Ring version is an exclusive event in the festival programme “100 years Theater Duisburg”. Well-known Wagner interpreters of Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the Duisburg Philharmonic under Axel Kober supply the musical highlights, steered through the evening by the skittish and yet brilliant comments of the late Loriot, recited by actor Rudolf Kowalski.
 

Musikalische Leitung Axel Kober
 
Erzähler Rudolf Kowalski
Alberich Oleg Bryjak
Woglinde Anke Krabbe
Wellgunde Iryna Vakula
Flosshilde Katarzyna Kuncio
Wotan Marcus Jupither / Jürgen Linn / Tomasz Konieczny
Fricka Susan Maclean
Loge Wolfgang Schmidt
Siegmund Corby Welch
Sieglinde Ingeborg Greiner / Heike Wessels
Brünnhilde Caroline Whisnant
Siegfried Michael Weinius
Helmwige Anke Krabbe
Ortlinde Josefine Weber
Gerhilde Jessica Stavros
Siegrune Iryna Vakula
Waltraute Susan Maclean
Rossweisse Sarah Ferede
Grimgerde Katarzyna Kuncio
Schwertleite Maria Kataeva
Mime Wolfgang Schmidt
Hagen Thorsten Grümbel / Hans-Peter König
Gunther Dmitri Vargin / James Bobby
Gutrune Elisabeth Selle
Orchester Duisburger Philharmoniker