Susan Froemke's documentary follows Robert Lepage's five-year journey as he stages Wagner's Ring Cycle for New York's Metropolitan Opera
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Wagner's four-part 16-hour Ring Cycle is one of opera's most monumental challenges. Visionary director Robert Lepage has been on a five-year journey to create the most ambitious staging in Metropolitan Opera history, featuring a 90,000-pound set (c 41 tonnes) that was known as "the Machine" designed to realise all of Wagner's scenic instructions.
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This documentary follows Lepage, his creative team and his singers, and the challenges they faced realising the director's daring attempt to achieve Wagner's dream of a perfect Ring.
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Wagner's Dream is at cinemas internationally from 20 June, each opera in the Ring Cycle follows on subsequent weekends. UK details here.
Read more about the cycle here,...
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Wagner's four-part 16-hour Ring Cycle is one of opera's most monumental challenges. Visionary director Robert Lepage has been on a five-year journey to create the most ambitious staging in Metropolitan Opera history, featuring a 90,000-pound set (c 41 tonnes) that was known as "the Machine" designed to realise all of Wagner's scenic instructions.
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This documentary follows Lepage, his creative team and his singers, and the challenges they faced realising the director's daring attempt to achieve Wagner's dream of a perfect Ring.
Reading this on mobile? Click here to view
Wagner's Dream is at cinemas internationally from 20 June, each opera in the Ring Cycle follows on subsequent weekends. UK details here.
Read more about the cycle here,...
- 6/20/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
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