Wagner - Copenhagen Ring

Wagner's gargantuan Ring Cycle -- the celebrated, critically-acclaimed production at the Royal Danish Opera, come to be known as the Copenhagen Ring. Now available as a Decca DVD box set (074 3264)

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[WagnerNietzsche]

Wagner - as most composers actually - was well aware that his original setting was intended for the first performance and nothing else. Secondly Wagner hated his original setting as you can verify in his collected writings. Thirdly opera isn´t a museum. To compare a painting to a living and breathing form of art like theatre or opera just shows your lack of artistic knowledge, nothing else. So please, do the spirit of Wagner a favour and keep your petty opinion for yourself

[Mirgrautsvordir]

Definitiv eine sehenswerte Ring-Inszenierung. sehr nah und ohne krawel. Beste Fricka-Performance ever. wunderbare Erda, zum Brüllen komische Gutrune. Leider wird Hagen erbärmlich gesungen.... und Siegfried....nun. Insegsamt eine hübsche weibliche Sicht auf den Ring, ich bleib trotzdem bei Götz Friedrich.

[jcwilson6]

Wagner also gave extensive and highly detailed directions for the stage directions and artistic directions of his day, as found in his diaries. He grew quite frustrated when the artists did not present his exact and demanding directions (even the colors used in costumes). Cosima notes some of these frustrations in her journal and quotes Wagner as saying on Sep 23 1879 "having invented the invisible orchestra I now feel like inventing the invisible theater" after an artist failed in an attempt

[jcwilson6]

@WagnerNietzsche regarding post modern stagings and Wagner's thoughts. Wagner himself wrote in "The Public in Time and Space:" "Almost every operatic rigisseur has at one time attempted to trim 'Don Giovanni' to the day, whereas every intelligent person should reflect that not this work must be altered to fit our times, but ourselves to the time of 'Don Giovanni' if we are to arrive in harmony with Mozart's creation."

[VivaRenata]

1.I thought the Rhine maidens were the ones supposed to be swimming? Was I wrong? 2.Granted, the theme that appears in Walküre Act 3 when Sieglinde finds out she is pregnant appears only once more in the Ring, at the end of Götterdämmerung. If the universe has been destroyed, will it be repopulated by Brünnhilde and her son? Is it Siegfried's son? Don't forget, Brünnhilde was Siegfried's aunt. If she has a son with her son, will it be as smart as its father or even more stupid?

[VivaRenata]

@theropodia Absolutely right. I saw only Die Walküre live in Copenhagen a couple of years ago, and I was appalled though the singing was quite good, except for Hunding. And oh yeah, one Walküre was missing (unfortunately the one who sings the top part), so the ho-jo-to-ho in "the ride" didn't feel quite as exciting as it should. But you know, the Danes are easy going. But I found the production abysmal because of the director's complete disregard for the words and the score.

[theropodia]

Abonimal! The director is a fool and cares naught for the singing...

[windstorm1000]

GHASTLY!!

[harryharryballs]

@dessay1 don't forget naked men swimming in fish tanks. whoops never mind, you did mention genitalia.

[dessay1]

EUROTRASH CONCEPT ~

Focus on gluetumus Maximus, Flaccid, bobbing genetalia, Maidens in high heels on those treacherously narrow steps - one misstep and disaster!

NO FOCUS ON THE VOCALS - cheap tricks do not make a great produciton.

[tenso37]

No puedo decir que me disguste el resto de esta escenografía, pero me parece un completo error el momento en que Wotan arranca las alas de Brunilda. La música y la imágen muestran emociones totalmente opuestas, no tiene sentido.

[jamesaellis]

This look wonderful. I felt her pain when she lost her wings.......