Maravilloso espectáculo, una maravilla de Zubin Metha llevada a escena por La Fura dels Baus en Valencia, mi ciudad, donde tuve el honor de presenciar en directo ... Maravillosa versión !!!
Herzlichen Dank für das Einstellen dieses fantastischen Materials. Alle paar Monate komme ich hierher zurück, sehe es an und vergieße Tränen der Rührung. Unglaublich, mit welcher Kraft Wagner ausdrücken konnte. Allergrößte Kunst; mehr geht nicht. Zitat: "Verwünschte Nicker!".
Absolut fantastisch! Eine der ganz wenigen Inszenierungen, von denen man sagen kann, sie verströmen in größtem Maße die Magie Wagners, erzeugen die größte denkbare poetische Faszination.
Ich kann nur jedem empfehlen, mal an den Ort des Geschehens, ins prächtige Mittelrheintal zu fahren. Da erhebt sich erst die Mystik von Wagners Meisterwerk. Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge, mit prächtiger Glut, strahlt glänzend die Burg!
excellent singing. wierd staging. the players are all new to me BUT the Wotan, the Fricka and the Loge are pure. three of the best I have heard. personally I like the more traditional stagings like the Met Opera's 1990's versions by Otto Schenk. this one looks like an Opera version of a Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil production. still, it's the music abd the singing that really counts. thanx for posting, Reinhard62.
Una gran produccion de La Fura ,muy espectacular y a la vez muy a mi gusto con un vestuario moderno pero acorde con lo escrito por Wagner Maria Angels Molpeceres
Not surprising that Strictly By Hoyle Wagner diehards would bust a nut over the post-modern/sci-fi presentation. Having seen and enjoyed many traditional stagings, I found these abstractions very engaging, and apros pos to Wagner's mystical/mythological airs and aspirations. As for the final "ascent" to Valhalla, staged not as a stately parade up the mountain, but rather the Gods being enveloped by the airborne acrobats to be a very moving visual metaphor. But hey, that's why they make menus, huh? If we all liked the same things, wouldn't be much of a journey.
There are some spectacular screen backgrounds in this production (eg descent to Nibelheim), but where are "The bridge leads you homeward, light, yet firm to your feet" and "Evening rays flood the skies with splendour. Those glorious beams shine there on my hall"? To do this to the final scene is not acceptable.
Agosto x Film&Arts "El Anillo del Nibelungo” , el grupo barcelonés La Fura del Baus - por estos días presentándose- en Argentina, mezcla música, danza, acrobacia y tecnología de manera increible, recomendable :) #eso
What's worse is that the singers seem really uncomfortable with the mechanical devices their forced to interact with. Donner looks apprehensive-I bet a stagehand has brought that boom down hard a time or two-, and Loge clearly is having to think about controlling the Segway. That can't be good for performance.
Wonderfully performed....but incongruous set design doesn't work for me I'm afraid. I agree with others - sticking to Wagner's unrivalled imagination and offering an interpretation on his original concept is what he would have had in mind surely. Mind you, we are privileged to witness this classic musical drama, premiered some 150 years ago! Thank you.
I hate the cumbersome costumes and the makeup of Wotan, but I think some visual ideas are brilliant. - the Gods having to be lifted my minions operating machines. They have no real power in themselves and are completely unaware of their situation. The walk to Valhalla, to me, is also really brilliant. - The music portrays nothing but triumph, but we know darned well from the murder of Froh, and the lament of the Rhinemaidens that it's not going to be really a happy ending for the gods. So Valhalla is depicted by acrobats, - Wotan's army of dead hero's we learn about in Die Walkure. The army defending the 'fortress' open's it's doors to enclose the God's, and then closes on them. But instead of a vision of safety, we see them looking through their 'fortress', absolutely, ridiculously exposed, - which in fact, they are. It's a ironic vision of futility, - which the audience, if it has done its homeword, already knows.
Ist halt mal was anderes, ich find´s mutig und gar nicht schlecht. Das Schlußbild find ich sogar richtig gelungen, Walhall erschaffen aus lauter Menschenopfern... warum nicht?
The rather scruffy Wotan, who has been eating too many pies, looks like he had a fight with the producer. "The night is near, from all its ills, we have our refuge now......" (where is the frigging castle?)....stage opens to a bunch of extras dangling on ropes. WTF? Surprising that Fricka can be heard with that hoodie on.
'Auch durch das Bühnenbild psychologisch sehr treffend und richtig umgesetzt', 'die Macht ist am besten geteilt und gebunden, und Bewegung widerfährt ihr', so muss man wohl sagen.
I'm always suspicion of these Regietheater productions rather than expressing new artistic vision that they really are just trying to cut corners on their budget. Loki on a Segway is a bit much.
Über Geschmack lässt sich nicht streiten, über die Arroganz und Anmaßung von Eduard ebenso wenig. Aber Herablassung kommt ja eh meist aus vorgeschwindelter Höhe.
we can't destroy the sublimely powerful music, so let's screw with every other aspect in the hopes that people may finally stop paying attention to the music's spiritual greatness (and the great Germanic cultural universe from which it was birthed)
I can understand Cirque de Solei using this music as a part of their performance, I am just confused as to why the staging of the opera is now so abstract only phd students in postmodernism can understand it.
As a matter of fact, I am an amateur artist, and I could come up with something. I know a thing or two about the difficulty of getting anything accepted, though (my brother-in-law is an opera stage designer) and I don't need the grief. But if you want to see a few sketches, get in touch.
Schön gesagt. Die Inszenierung ist in der Tat grauenvoll. Die Sänger sind fantastisch wie auch das Orchester. Schade um den Aufwand für das Bühnenbild. Manchmal wäre weniger mehr.
I will compliment the actual athletics and the choreography. It's beautifully done but it's like a great set for the wrong show. I think if this director is interested in a "new" vision, maybe they should just promote new playwrites and composers instead?
Most of comments is stupid crap - the people did not see the full-time almost 3 hrs piece. The production is awesome and mind-blowing. I am not a fan of modern theatre because it's often made poorly. But this one is very different.
Je trouve qu'ils jouent toujours/souvent la fin trop lentement 7:50. Essayez en 1,25 de vitesse, ça marche mieux. C'est assez pompeux, ça n'a pas besoin d'être ennuyeux. De plus, le jouer trop lentement comme ils font bousille le thème de l'arc en ciel, qui ne ressemble plus à rien. Dans la version de 1955 de Joseph Keilberth (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OgKr4K3VDvk.html), le tempo et la dynamique me semble meilleure.
Who is the conductor. Too slow. The breaths thought in the score remain as musical gaps between phrase and phrase. It's terrible when conductors don't think about something so basic.
Spektakulaere was? The producer is in dire need of a long stretch of unemployment. I could pick fifty illiterate guys from the unemployment queues and come up with fifty better versions of this scene - and this bastard has been paid how much, for it?
Reminds me of the song "WE'VE GOT THE GOLD"by my friend NICO.Somehow,her soul needed to take a trip on the wild BOURBON side in France..where I met her first in 1971 when she was giving a concert at BEAUX ARTS,Paris. She was/is a true GODDESS ...neither Germany nor France (they put her on heroin in France ) nor the US really could /can make sense of LIVING GODS and LIVING GODDESSES...they drag them into the gutter out of pure jealousy. ..and then put their New Age gurus with their endless selfhelp books on the throne next to pornstars and other idols financed and pushed into power by certain DEEP STATE MAFIA bosses ... In the old days,we had KING LUDWIG II of BAVARIA ..a genius himself with a mind and consciousness so advanced that they could only stop him by declaring him"mentally ill"by the age of 47 ....
I pray I live to see the day we get past the "Cult of the UGLY" in Opera setting. Gawd knows how much they spent to make this production look stupid... for starters, how about turning on some of the dang LIGHTS? What is this 40+ year obsession with dark staging? Put up some SETS! OK make them futuristic, alien even, but light it up! Show us! Nor am I any fan of Mehta; this quality of orchestra and singers has no choice but to be "good," but that's all it is. Slow, tendentious as boring.
There have been there productions in recent years, especially at Bayreuth , which were far more ridiculous . This one doesn't even come even remotely close to the idiocy of other Eurotrash productions .
