Tag Archives: Wagner

Rheingold Review – MetHD

Posted on October 14, 2010 by philip

The count-down begins: 5 minutes . . .  4 . . . 3 . . .  2 . . . 1 . . .  The theater lights dim, the audience becomes quiet.  There is an air of expectancy in the CinÉArts @ Palo Alto Square Theatre where it is 10 AM Saturday morning, as there is on the giant screen in front of us where it is 1 pm in the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center New  York City. Continue reading »

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Wagner’s Ring (Valencia) – Exciting Technology

Posted on September 6, 2010 by philip

If all goes well for me during the coming 2010-11 operatic season, it will be the Year of the Ring. The 12-production Met HD season will be book-ended by new productions of Das Rheingold and Die Walké¼re, the first two operas in the cycle (the last two should follow next year). In November and January the European HD network will present a new production of the same two operas from La Scala. In June, the San Francisco Opera will present the complete cycle produced by their Artistic Adviser Francesca Zambello. And the season began in August 2010 with the European HD showing of final opera in the fantastical production by Carlus Padrissa and La Fura dels Baus which I have just seen. Continue reading »

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Die Walké¼re Review – Part II of Wagner’s Ring Cycle closes the Opera nut’s Marathon

Posted on June 2, 2010 by philip

San Francisco Splash’s Opera nut (Philip G. Hodge) has outdone himself, sacrificing himself to five operas in six days with this being the last.  But it seems to agree with him.  Continue reading »

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Siegfried

Posted on March 21, 2010 by philip

Siegfried
Wagner
March 21 and 24, 2010
Valencia (Spain) HD
HD at Camera 7 Pruneyard, Campbell, CA

 the   R I N G.

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