Kinder, schafft Neues!
In contrast to the high-minded sentiments expressed by the Ring directors recently interviewed by Anne Midgette, here are a few light and lively moments from a youth theater show called Her den Ring produced by the Studiotheater Bayreuth.
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And check out the young Siegfried’s antics in the early part of this clip: this actor makes Wenarto‘s colleagues seem positively stodgy!
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Let’s hope Robert LePage is far enough along with his new Ring that he won’t be influenced by this. But then it probably wouldn’t matter.
What is that Uwe Hoppe says in the second part, viewable on Youtube, about “witziger, spitziger”?
The blonde woman interviewed would seem to give the worst imaginable condemnation, saying that the production is “gleichfoermig,” but then along comes a man with an even harsher judgment, saying that this Nacherzahlung of The Ring is “langweilig.”
Dear me, the Lepage Ring hasn’t even opened yet and its getting bad reviews!!!!!
Watching this gave me an idea for Highschool Musical IV: The Senior Ring.
Anyone listening to “Walkure” now, from the MET…?
Just turned it on..Pape is hot as Hunding…!
VERY interesting intermission interview with Linda Watson…she is very articulate , and isn’t suffering some of Magggie and Will’s foolishness, lightly….
Did anyone else think Linda Watson sounded rather butch? (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) Afterward it was funny to hear MJ gushing over how beautiful she is…
Pavel:
Maybe…a little “butch”…but more of a certain type of “Californian Intensity” that I used to hear among fiercely focused women, when I used to live in “The Golden State”…
brooklynpunk — she certainly struck me as quite intense and extremely intelligent.
I felt uneasy that Watson, 15-minutes before going on in Act II, was talking to a couple of gasbags on international radio. To this we’ve come? It cannot have been helpful to her; whatever happened to being quiet and concentrated in your dressing room, conserving your energy?
So far I think Domingo is a Zombie. He’s wound up and trying hard, but his German remains about as dreary as I’ve ever heard from a major artist, and his voice is nothing but pushed, no beauty — just “one more time” seems the mood. The man is the Citybank of tenors; he’s overdrawn on vocal assets and needs to quit! I am sick of him and his ego-needs. Pieczonka seems fine up to about G or A-flat, but upwards of that the voice thickens and sounds driven, losing color and quality – gets a bit blowsey. Maybe it’s a lot better in the house; hope so. Her ‘girlish’ quality is nice, however.