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Wagner's dream.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Ring des Nibelungen.
- Wagner, Richard.
- Opera--Production and direction--United States.
- Opera.
- Opera--Production and direction.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 53 min., 59 sec.)) : sound, colo
- Other Title:
- Met Opera on Demand.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [2012]
- Language Note:
- In English; Vocal selections in German; English, French, German, and Spanish subtitles.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- digital
- video file streaming video file
- Summary:
- The stakes could not be higher as visionary director Robert Lepage, the world's greatest singers, and the Metropolitan Opera tackle Wagner's Ring cycle. An intimate look at the enormous theatrical and musical challenges of staging opera's most monumental work, the film chronicles the quest to fulfill Wagner's dream of a perfect Ring.
- Contents:
- Wagner's dream
- Imagining a new Ring
- Building the machine
- Convincing the crew
- Rolling out the machine
- Brünnhilde
- Solving problems
- Das Rheingold: Opening night
- Die Walküre: Hojotoho!
- Uncharted territory
- A new Siegfried arrives
- Götterdämmerung: Discovery
- The pinnacle moment
- Credits.
- Participant:
- Robert Lepage ; Deborah Voigt ; Jay Hunter Morris ; Peter Gelb ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ; James Levine, Fabio Luisi, conductors.
- Credits:
- Director, Susan Froemke.
- Notes:
- Recorded live in 2012 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
- Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
- OCLC:
- 859396325
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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