Streaming

[Hoffmann]

Thanks Annie!

When it says radically stripped back, though, do we know precisely WHAT has been stripped back? Is it like the semi-Colon ring?

[Luiz Gazzola (Almaviva)]

Thanks Annie!

When it says radically stripped back, though, do we know precisely WHAT has been stripped back? Is it like the semi-Colon ring?

Seems like the runtime is 16 hours if we gauge it by the accompanying feature showing the maestro conducting the ring.

They do talk about the operas being complete. Maybe the stripped back part is not the music but rather the staging, down to the basics, conceptually speaking. Or design-wise. See this, for example: [clicky]

[Ann Lander (sospiro)]

Thanks Annie!

When it says radically stripped back, though, do we know precisely WHAT has been stripped back? Is it like the semi-Colon ring?

Sorry. Don't know.

[Nemorino]

Thanks Annie!

When it says radically stripped back, though, do we know precisely WHAT has been stripped back? Is it like the semi-Colon ring?

I'm pretty sure they're uncut. I've read rave reviews from Wagnerians. They mean cut back in the stagings: they're much closer to a concert version than a staged version. The orchestra is on stage, and there is mood lighting and projections. The projections carry the surtitling, and may also have additional narrative/contextualizing text (I read one thing that suggested that, but I have not seen these for myself):



And I agree, thank you Ann! I'm excited to know that I'll be able to watch these!

[Ann Lander (sospiro)]

BBC Arts and The Space present Richard Wagner’s monumental Ring cycle, in a radically stripped-back, critically acclaimed production by Opera North. Filmed during live performances in 2016, this is total immersion in a unique, all-encompassing music drama. Watch the complete production from Sunday, 12 February 2017.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/arti...ers-ring-cycle

[Hoffmann]

Washington National Opera, suffering following the financial collapse, postpones staging their planned production of Götterdämmerung several years ago and substituted 2 performances done in concert. At the time, I had never seen GD, and don't believe had ever heard it all the way through, for that matter, and was blown away by what turned out to be a stunning semi-staged performance.

Worked better than their fully staged production, which is pretty lame. SF Opera shares this Ring with WNO and will be staging it next year.

[Nemorino]

Worked better than their fully staged production, which is pretty lame. SF Opera shares this Ring with WNO and will be staging it next year.

Awwwwwww, don't tell me it's lame!... I'm already planning my vacation for San Fran in 2018. : ) I love what I've read about Zambello's "American Ring" concept (I think we've established I'm a regie-loving abnormality).

[Soave_Fanciulla]

Washington National Opera, suffering following the financial collapse, postpones staging their planned production of Götterdämmerung several years ago and substituted 2 performances done in concert. At the time, I had never seen GD, and don't believe had ever heard it all the way through, for that matter, and was blown away by what turned out to be a stunning semi-staged performance.

Worked better than their fully staged production, which is pretty lame. SF Opera shares this Ring with WNO and will be staging it next year.

I quite like semi staged too, and in NZ it's the only way I get to see non-warhorse opera. Nixon in China last year was fantastic.

[Soave_Fanciulla]

Munich is restreaming Semiramide with Joyce DiDonato, Alex Esposito, Daniela Barcellona and Lawrence Brownlee for just over 24 hours, so drop everything and watch it. clicky

[Hoffmann]

Awwwwwww, don't tell me it's lame!... I'm already planning my vacation for San Fran in 2018. : ) I love what I've read about Zambello's "American Ring" concept (I think we've established I'm a regie-loving abnormality).

Without getting too specific, Zambello's Ring has an environmental theme (which I think is a stretch - instead of burning Valhalla, the chorus drags filled black trash bags across the stage and dump them off a cliff. Sort of.) It might, however, resonate more successfully this spring than a year ago.

That said, her Die Walküre is brilliant - the clearest and most dramatic rendering of the opera I've seen (I've only seen 4 live, but it's hard to imagine that this can be bettered). We also had Nina Stemme's Brunnhilde and a surprisingly good Alan Held as Wotan.

There also are superb moments in Das Rheingold (like when Fafner and Fasolt descend from the flies on an I-beam, reminiscent of the iconic photo of workers eating lunch on the exposed superstructure of the Empire State building in the 1930s)

[Nemorino]

There's a trailer out for Bayerische Staatsoper's new Tannhäuser, which they stream on July 9. Clicky to see Klaus Florian Vogt with a man-bun!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0D5hByvNlvc

Looks like my first viewing of Tannhäuser will be a lit-tle weird....

[Dichteurehalle]

There's a trailer out for Bayerische Staatsoper's new Tannhäuser, which they stream on July 9. Clicky to see Klaus Florian Vogt with a man-bun!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0D5hByvNlvc

Looks like my first viewing of Tannhäuser will be a lit-tle weird....

You buried the lede somewhat, click to see Christian Gerhaher with a man bun! I've watched all the clips of the director discussing his vision, but beyond the grossness of flesh and the symbology of circles, I understand nothing. I'm going to be there for the performance they're streaming, very much looking forward to finding a long-time Bayerische Staatsoper operagoer and getting them to explain it to me

[Soave_Fanciulla]

You buried the lede somewhat, click to see Christian Gerhaher with a man bun! I've watched all the clips of the director discussing his vision, but beyond the grossness of flesh and the symbology of circles, I understand nothing. I'm going to be there for the performance they're streaming, very much looking forward to finding a long-time Bayerische Staatsoper operagoer and getting them to explain it to me

Yes I spotted that too! Seems as though we have precisely the same taste in baritones!

I guessed Castellucci as the director before seeing his name. Incomprehensible but very striking production.

[Festat]

Incomprehensible but very striking

My kind of Regie.

[Ann Lander (sospiro)]

Turandot from ROH, lived streamed to Big Screens in UK and on YouTube on 14 July 2017.
Opera starts at 19:30 British Summer Time (18:30 GMT)

http://www.roh.org.uk/news/catch-the...n-14-july-2017

Cast and credits.