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The Ring Cycle@The Met

Posted: 5/6/12 at 3:59am

http://wagnersdream.metoperafamily.org/

Did anyone see the Met Opera production of The Ring? They have a new Doco out in theatres on Monday night "Wagners Dream " that looks amazing.

Hoping some one here might have seen the operas or planning on seeing this new film.

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Posted: 5/6/12 at 4:28am

Looking at there website, they are doing the Cycle again in April May next year, for those that have been to the Met. Where is the bed pace to sit?

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Posted: 5/6/12 at 7:43am

We were there last night for Rheingold, and we go back Monday, Wednesday and then next Saturday for Gotterdamerung.

I'm enjoying the physical production ("La Machine") and the singers are fantastic, especially Bryn Terfel.

Mostly it's wonderful just to drink in that glorious music.

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Posted: 5/6/12 at 12:25pm

I've never been to an opera, but what the met is able to achieve in terms of theatrics has always fascinated me. I think you'll be able to find me at one of the showings in the city tomorrow night. Thanks for posting this!

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert

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Posted: 5/6/12 at 9:21pm

I really want to see the movie but it's only showing tomorrow night, which is the second night of my Ring Cycle.

And in case anyone has never seen this (or if you feel like laughing again), here is Anna Russell's recap of the Ring in 29 minutes:

http://youtu.be/Cv7G92F2sqs

(in 3 parts on YouTube)

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Posted: 5/7/12 at 6:00am

"He put her on a rock and nagged her into a coma" LOL

Thanks for the link Pal Joey, hope the second opera is as good as the first/.

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Posted: 5/7/12 at 12:21pm

Oh lord, RobbieJ is going to be at Die Walkure tonight.

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Posted: 5/7/12 at 12:30pm

Robbie and Robert Lepage is a match made in special effect heaven.

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Posted: 5/7/12 at 12:41pm

I swear, if a single old bitch asks me to remove my horned helmet, I will rape and pillage till Deborah Voight comes home.

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Posted: 5/7/12 at 12:54pm

You're joking, but the other night at Rheingold, there were three separate groups, each of which decided to attend wearing identical horned headpieces.

As Anna Russell says, "And at these prices!"

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Posted: 5/7/12 at 1:16pm

They must be like RENTheads. WAGtails, maybe?

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Posted: 5/7/12 at 1:28pm

At Siegfried last Monday there was a patron wearing a horned headpiece that had a purple blinking light inside of each horn.

It was hilarious.

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Posted: 5/7/12 at 1:29pm

Wait.

Seriously?

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Posted: 5/7/12 at 1:47pm

Just the title of this thread put me to sleep.
Just kidding; saw Lyric Opera of Chicago's Ring and loved all 72 hours of it.
Yes, they also had die hard fans in costume.

PEACE.

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Posted: 5/7/12 at 1:58pm

I blame Rock of Ages.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

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Posted: 5/7/12 at 2:37pm

I was going to try to be there tonight. But since Jonas Kaufmann won't be there, neither will I.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

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Posted: 5/7/12 at 4:44pm

I know Jonas Kauffman is opera's version of porn, but come on, tonight has Bryn Terfel, Stephanie Blythe and Deborah Voigt!

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Posted: 5/7/12 at 5:47pm

PJ, I should have clarified that I saw it last year with all three of them, plus Kaufmann. Terfel and Blythe are incredible for sure. I'm not crazy about LePage's production (or Voigt's Brunnhilde) so I decided not to go out of my way this year to see it again once Kaufmann cancelled. So, my Met season ends on Friday with VEC MAKROPULOS.

(Also, don't forget the amazing Eva Marie Westbroek! I can't wait to see her in Francesca di Rimini next season)

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Posted: 5/8/12 at 1:02am

RobbieJ was surprisingly well behaved.

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