Today I went to see Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold as a movie theater broadcast in The Metropolitan Opera‘s Live in HD Series. It was awesome! It was directed by Robert Lepage and conducted by Maestro James Levine. This is the second show I have seen in the broadcast series, the first being Carmen during the 2009-2010 Encore season in August.
What attracted me to today’s performance was my interest in learning the story of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen tetrology. And, it seems that the Met is going to complete the cycle in its upcoming performance seasons.
Perhaps even more intriguing is the technical talent that went into making today’s Ring stage performance a success. ”The Machine” that was built just for the Ring cycle productions, a 45 ton apparatus with independently moving planks hovering above the stage, was amazing. It was a beautiful backdrop and canopy for the staged lights and added a wonderful twist of creativity to the stage space.
This production of Das Rheingold – the music, the voices, the dialogue, the stage sets – really came together to create an enchanting work of art. The next opera in Wagner’s series, Die Walkure, airs in May 2011. I will definitely be there!
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