Wagner's dream The making of the Metropolitan Opera's new Der Ring des Nibelungen
DVD - 2012
"Wagner's dream takes you deep into the artistic and musical challenges of the epic Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner. Visionary director Robert Lepage begins a five-year journey to create the the most ambitious staging in Metropolitan Opera history, featuring a 90,000 pound set ("The Machine") conceived to meet Wagner's immense theatrical demands. The film follows heroic singers from rehearsals to performance as they take on many of the most daunting roles in opera."--Container.
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- Genres
- Documentary films
- Published
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Berlin :
Deutsche Grammophon
c2012.
- Language
- English
Multiple languages
Chinese
French
German
Spanish - Corporate Author
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- Other Authors
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- Item Description
- Title from container.
Booklet containing A conversation with the film makers in English inserted in container. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD ; NTSC ; All region ; Widescreen (16:9) ; PCM stereo., DTS 5.1.
- Production Credits
- Bob Eisenhardt, editor ; Roger Phenix sound; Don Lenzer, camera.
- Wagner's dream
- Imagining a new Ring
- Building the machine
- Convincing the crew
- Rolling out the machine
- Brünnhilde
- Solving problems
- Das Rheingold: opening night
- Die Walküre: Hojotoho!
- Uncharted territory
- A new Siegfried arrives
- Götterdämmerung: discovery
- The pinacle moment.