Tag: Das Rheingold
WQXR Features
Too Big to Fail? Met Opera's 'Ring' Set Raises New Questions
Monday, May 02, 2011
The Met’s 45-ton set piece for its new Ring cycle, which opened the current season with a new production of Das Rheingold and now commands the stage in the cycle’s second opera, Die Walküre, continues to present unexpected challenges to performers.
Operavore
Pursuing Anvil Leads
Friday, April 29, 2011
As the Metropolitan Opera presents Wagner’s Das Rheingold and Verdi’s Il Trovatore this month, Fred Plotkin investigates one of the more striking ingredients shared between the two productions: the use of the lead anvil.
Metropolitan Opera
Wagner's Das Rheingold
Saturday, April 02, 2011
The Met's season-opening production of Das Rheingold returns in Robert Lepage's attention-getting staging centered on a 45-ton "machine." The roster of singers includes Bryn Terfel as Wotan, Wendy Bryn Harmer as Freia and Eric Owens as Alberich.
Saturday at the Opera
Wagner's Das Rheingold
Saturday, July 24, 2010
The Los Angeles Opera's wildly fanciful, $32 million production of the Ring Cycle was a decade in the making. This week's Saturday at the Opera features the first installment of Wagner's four-opera cycle, Das Rheingold.
