A full Wagner Ring Cycle! And an impressive one.
Streaming for free from San Francisco. Each weekend in March, SFO is streaming their 2018 production of the Ring in sequence for free. From predawn each Sunday till Monday at 7pm.
The cycle started with Das Rheingold 7-8 March. Coming up
Sunday 14th March - Monday 15th is Die Walküre. Synopsis and lots to read about the production here.
Sunday 21st March - Monday 22nd is Siegfried
And then, the world (and our U3a term) ends with GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG Sunday March 28– Monday 29th.
The operas are available HERE - all day and night each Sunday and daytime Monday. (See below for the calculation *)
The SFO 2018 Ring was hugely ambitious and well reviewed. Their Wotan, Greer Grimsley, is a top baritone who's made the role his across the world. This review has a lot of images from the production, whose environmental and critical tone is clearly in the tradition set by the Bayreuth centenary production we viewed today. Some wonderful images and detail of the production and its achievements and messages in this fascinating account.
Our response to the first screening - Rheingold - was delight. It's the most fast-paced and human production we've seen. A splendid combination of wonderful orchestral and sung music, with sharp characterization of those mythical gods and a wicked sense of always relevant comedy and very clearly telling the story of the Ring. Loge in particular, is lol witty. A totally different Wotan - overshadowed by the clever and the loving...
There's a wealth of information and videos on their website. Go HERE for the timetable, and a lot of events, videos and Zoom discussions you can join for a small ticket price.
And then - Go HERE to access the live stream.
* Oh yes, that timing calculation: Streaming starts at 10am Pacific on Saturdays (that's 4am Sunday our time) and ends the next day at 11:59pm Pacific (Monday 5.59pm our time. But when it's daylight saving here - it's 6.59pm). View schedule. Warning: these are long operas, so don't start viewing too late on Monday!!
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