Comments on: Kupfer Ring (Barcelona Production) on DVD http://www.patterico.com/2005/10/29/kupfer-ring-barcelona-production-on-dvd/ Harangues that just make sense Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:05:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Silicon Valley Redneck http://www.patterico.com/2005/10/29/kupfer-ring-barcelona-production-on-dvd/#comment-26492 Silicon Valley Redneck Fri, 11 Nov 2005 02:34:15 +0000 http://patterico.com/2005/10/29/3873/kupfer-ring-barcelona-production-on-dvd/#comment-26492 <strong>In the mail: entertainment for a long weekend at home.</strong> Today's care package from Amazon:Der Ring des Nibelungen (not the same production Patterico got; we'll have to compare notes).Die Meistersinger von NürnbergLooney Toons Golden Collection, Vol. 3Rocky Bullwinkle Friends, Season 3 And, not for this we... In the mail: entertainment for a long weekend at home.

Today’s care package from Amazon:Der Ring des Nibelungen (not the same production Patterico got; we’ll have to compare notes).Die Meistersinger von NürnbergLooney Toons Golden Collection, Vol. 3Rocky Bullwinkle Friends, Season 3 And, not for this we…

]]> By: m.croche http://www.patterico.com/2005/10/29/kupfer-ring-barcelona-production-on-dvd/#comment-25381 m.croche Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:38:02 +0000 http://patterico.com/2005/10/29/3873/kupfer-ring-barcelona-production-on-dvd/#comment-25381 Saw Siegfried/Gotterdammerung about 10 years ago at the Staatsoper, so my memory needs to be refreshed. But the opening of Siegfried is a pretty spectacular coup de theatre. I have to imagine it's much less effective on a tv screen, though. My suggestion: keep the volume up and let the music compensate for the missing visual grandeur. The productions were popular with the public: far less inscrutable than most recent German Wagner productions (contemporary Deutsche Oper Ring productions, for example, had singers running up and down something the director called a "time-tunnel") High-minded folk complained of too much Hollywood schnick-schnack. Which complaint might just as well be laid at Wagner's door. My impression of a lot of Barenboim opera performances at the time was that the orchestra sounded fairly well-rehearsed, the winds were terrific, but that Barenboim's conducting during performance was a bit capricious, throwing the musicians off balance. Saw Siegfried/Gotterdammerung about 10 years ago at the Staatsoper, so my memory needs to be refreshed. But the opening of Siegfried is a pretty spectacular coup de theatre.

I have to imagine it’s much less effective on a tv screen, though.

My suggestion: keep the volume up and let the music compensate for the missing visual grandeur.

The productions were popular with the public: far less inscrutable than most recent German Wagner productions (contemporary Deutsche Oper Ring productions, for example, had singers running up and down something the director called a “time-tunnel”) High-minded folk complained of too much Hollywood schnick-schnack. Which complaint might just as well be laid at Wagner’s door.

My impression of a lot of Barenboim opera performances at the time was that the orchestra sounded fairly well-rehearsed, the winds were terrific, but that Barenboim’s conducting during performance was a bit capricious, throwing the musicians off balance.

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