Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen

Composer: Wagner, Richard

Librettist/Text Author: Wagner, Richard

Conductor: Lang-Lessing, Sebastian

Orchestra: Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra

Chorus: Berlin Deutsche Opera Chorus

Adriano: Aldrich, Kate

Baroncelli: Bieber, Clemens

Cecco del Vecchio: Bronk, Stephen

Irene: Nylund, Camilla

Kardinal Orvieto: Carlson, Lenus

Paolo Orsini: Szumanski, Krzysztof

Rienzi: Kerl, Torsten

Steffano Colonna: Jerkunica, Ante

Producer: Hieber, Thomas

Set Designer: Stolzl, Philipp

Set Designer: Siegrist, Ulrike

Costume Designer: Maurer, Kathi

Costume Designer: Kudrna, Ursula

Lighting Designer: Niepel, Ulrich

Stage Director: Stolzl, Philipp

Television Director: Grebert, Johannes

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Venue: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Playing Time: 02:34:39

Catalogue Number: A05017663

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Richard Wagner's early opera Rienzi is stylistically closer to Meyerbeer and bel canto than to Wagner's later masterworks. Yet even this early work – especially as presented in this recording from the Deutsche Oper Berlin – is "so fantastically beautiful that it takes one's breath away” (Berliner Zeitung). With staging by Philipp Stolzl, who condensed the five-act opera into a little over two hours, Rienzi becomes a startlingly powerful and timeless parable of power and abuse.