Opera in Three ActsThe Second part of Patrice Chereau's epoch-making Bayreuth Ring is a radical re-imagining of Die Walkure unprecedented in its psychological penetration.
This film is the one existing record of Karajan's Salzburg Ring on video. Made in 1978, with imagination extra film sequences to complement the original stage production for the Easter Festival, it brings to life the epic grandeur of Karajan's concept, with the fallible gods, headed by Thomas Stewart's nobly-sung Wotan, depicted in all their mythic majesty.
In 1976 French director Patrice Chereau's centenary staging of Wagner's Ring cycle unleashed the greatest scandal in Bayreuth Festival history but by the end of its last performances in 1980 this epoch-making production was acclaimed with an hour and a half of thunderous applause.
Die Walkure is the second part of Richard Wagner's gargantuan tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen concerning the irreconcilable struggle between Power and Love. The originality of this production from Het Musiktheater Amsterdam more than meets the perennial challenge of staging The Ring. Pierre Audi's stage direction in which the orchestra is placed on the spectacular ring-shaped stage succeeds in forging a profound unity between the lyrical mythical and philosophical qualities of
Gotterammerung is the 'third day' of Wagner's great tetra logy of music dramas Der Ring Des Nibelhngen.
Wagner: Gotterdammerung (Haenchen Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Kruse)
Die Walkure is the 'first day' of Wagner's great tetra logy of music dramas Der Ring des Nibelungen.Conducted by Pierre Boulez and directed by Patrice Chereau this 1976 production commemorating the centenary of the first Bayreuth Ring has come to be seen as the most illuminating and significant of modern times.
The second part of Richard Wagner's gargantuan tetralogy 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' is performed here by Het Muzietheater Amsterdam in a highly original production, accompanied by the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Hartmut Haenchen.
Lluis Pasqual's powerful production of Mozart's Don Giovanni for Madrid's Teatro Royal sets this timeless story of sleaze and seduction into the dark world of 1940s Spain. Carlos Alvarez takes the title role; Victor Pablo Perez conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real Madrid.
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