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Since its first performance more than a century ago, Richard Wagner's four- evening cycle of mythological music drama, Der Ring des Nibelungen, has been regarded as the Mount Everest of music, a daunting work that remains the ultimate test of operatic mettle. Despite its imposing demands, the Ring has been scaled repeatedly in the past four years -- at Bayreuth, San Francisco and Seattle, among other places. Last week the Metropolitan Opera took up the challenge, opening its 103rd season with a production of Die Walkure, the first installment of a new Ring...
...offensive line is a bit of a question mark, since the squad's only two All-Ivy selections (offensive guard Ken Johnson and center Mike Wagner) also graduated...
...devoted to the classics. He does not waste precious minutes on "garbage," a category in which he includes news, weather, and the time, among many other things. At WVCA, Geller leads off a typical morning lineup with Camille Saint-Saens and Sergei Rachmaninoff back to back, followed by Richard Wagner. He has no knack for pedantry; it is enough to play the music. When a visitor asks the name of a piece, he replies, "That's a piano concerto by Bronsart, who you probably never heard of. I don't know anything about him. A lot of the unknown composers...
...forthcoming battle with Hunding, it is imperative that the exhausted fighter actually look upon her for the scene to make dramatic sense, especially since English supertitles are used. Further, some of the ideas are not very original. The use of 19th century costume (Wotan is dressed to look like Wagner) is borrowed from Chereau, while some of the tableaux, particularly those that involve characters suspended from wires, evoke the striking images of Theater Artist Robert Wilson...
Although Rosenthal's tempos tend toward the inflexible, sometimes leaving sluggish singers to catch up as best they can, he never swamps them in Wagnerian sound. Clean and elegant, Rosenthal's interpretation reflects an approach one does not usually associate with Wagner. "Some people will be surprised," he says, "but the Ring is lots of fun." In a production that compels rethinking Wagner's monument, the casting of Rosenthal is the most daring element...