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Wagner - Das Rheingold / Zagrosek, Probst, Schuster, Indridadottir, Ruuttunen, StuttgartRating:
Release Date: 17 February, 2004 Retail Price: $29.99 OUR Price: $26.99 You SAVE: $3.00! Cast: |
Wagner - Das Rheingold / Zagrosek, Probst, Schuster, Indridadottir, Ruuttunen, Stuttgart Reviews
Disappointing
The Stuttgart -- seven DVD -- version of Richard Wagner's four opera Ring cycle, has made its somewhat disappointing 2004 premier.
An ambitious project conceived by Klaus Zehelein, the plan was to turn the Ring tetralogy over to four separate Designer/Director teams giving us four very personalized and single focused operas - the first time in the Ring's history that this has been done.
Theoretically, it was probably hoped that each team would be creative and not follow any preconceived model of what the Ring should look like, but instead, operate independently of each other and give us something that would be stylistically different while maintaining the thematic continuity and cohesiveness envisioned by the composer. The overall concept sounded promising, but a fault line ran through this cycle and ultimately consumed the idea and doomed it, giving us considerably less than what would be expected from such a grand and promising undertaking. The complete review of this seven disk set appears in the August 1st 2004 edition of OperaOnline.us
Why not something new?
After listening to Wagner for decades, one wonders why the Ring never gets boring! Here is one of the reasons, innovative coreography, superb acting and flexible interpretation of the characters/plot. They are all present in the Zagrosek DVD. If you want Wagner's music, this is not your Wagner: go buy Solti's CDs. If you are an opera monomaniac, see above. But if you want to be gripped by the plot and acting (which is why you'd buy a DVD and not a cD) shop no further! Before you buy, read the bad scores given by purists to this interpretation, another good reason to place an order NOW! Even my 11 old son liked this Wagner!
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