在这部瓦格纳－莱茵的黄金（《尼伯龙族指环》的序幕剧）片中,斯图加特歌剧院的这版《指环》制作始于1999年，也是首次创下了《指环》演出历史上，四部戏交给四位不同导演完成的首例。《莱茵黄金》的导演Joachim Schlömer和制景Jens Kilian合作，四场戏只采用了一个固定布景，摹仿斯特林堡的室内戏剧，所有的戏剧动作都在疗养院内展开（令人联想起托马斯·曼的《魔山》），将神话色彩抹去，转化为一出日常生活背景的悲喜剧。
Das Rheingold is the prologue to Wagner's Ring Cycle, and opens up the rich world of gods, dwarves, giants, dragons and humans that the story inhabits. With beautiful orchestration and an unerring sense of the dramatic, the first opera explains how the Rhinedaughters lost the Ring and how it fell into the hands of Alberich the Nibelung; Wotan, king of the gods; and Fafner the giant. Each time it changes hands, the Ring confers upon the bearer a curse and this pattern is set to continue until it is restored to its rightful owners, the daughters of the Rhine. 'In a masterly way Schlömer succeeds in presenting the characters' constantly changing web of relations. And since the stage is always open, the interludes are truly perceived as retrospective-anticipatory commentaries, and the music and scenery are linked interactively... The singing and action fit together perfectly...This Rheingold has an incomparable quality.' (FAZ)
