You got a brand new key signature
You can call Robert Lepage many things (and the critics have!), but one thing you cannot call him is “inflexible.” Having already tweaked a number of details in his Ring production that did not create the desired effect in their first viewing, the Canadian Cagliostro is now in the process of restaging whole segments of the cycle for the Met’s 2012-13 presentation. A glimpse at the new look for the final scene of Die Walküre after the jump.
SO BEAUTIFUL!!! Is that the Liszt transcription of the Magic Fire music? How difficult that pas de deux must be to do on a circle with a 4 foot radius. Must find more of that Wotan.
oops: 4′ diameter
Victor & Jenny Arata
http://www.skatingaratas.com/page3.html
The Skating Aratas act is performed by wife and husband duo Victor and Jenny Arata, the acrobatic skating routine is on a custom made 2x2 meter round platform. The Aratas routine involves incredibly difficult and dangerous stunts as they spin at neck breaking pace. Developed through over 18 years of intense training and rehearsal they display courage, skill and precision at an extremely high level. Being a Married couple adds even more adrenalin rush as Victor says “it’s my wife in my hands and you never forget the danger involved” Jenny adds “I trust my husband with my life, there is no other way you could perform such a dangerous act”
WHAT TIME IS THE NEXT SWAN TO VEGAS?
Leave it to Ellen to find the beautiful people. Her interview with the Aratas starts at 2:49. Wotan is really a counter tenor!
“Being a Married couple adds even more adrenalin rush as Victor says “it’s my wife in my hands and you never forget the danger involved” Jenny adds “I trust my husband with my life, there is no other way you could perform such a dangerous act”
Jenny perhaps doesn’t watch too many detective shows. Well, I guess we have the next plot for Law and Order.
Seems to me she needs to watch more opera.
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QPF: This is a repeat of my comment on an earlier comment. Don’t mean to take up more than my allotted blogspace, but this answers your question and is relevant here too.
The guy (?) who created the original YouTube video/music mashup describes this as BRASSIN- ARRANGED FOR PIANO SOLO. Don’t know if BRASSIN is the pianist or the arranger, or both.
Sempre liberal: do you know?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6scwiDar11k
Click on “Show more” under the video.
(Repeat of earlier post)
Yep. Here’s the piano score of the Louis Brassin arrangement.
http://erato.uvt.nl/files/imglnks/usimg/9/98/IMSLP13526-Brassin_-_Aus_Richard_Wagner_s_Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen_-_No.3_-_Feuerzauber__Die_Walkure_.pdf
About Louis Brassin
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Brassin-Louis.htm
Excellent. Thank you so much. Are you in the Netherlands? Why the .nl portal to IMSLP?
Nope -- in NYC.
A lot of the IMSLP links seem to be European. They are based in Canada, but people post from all over. It’s a great site.
http://imslp.org/wiki/
No matter how many times I studied this video, I couldn’t figure out the dramatic motivation for Victor to remove his shirt. Then it dawned on me that this must really be Le Page’s new Act III finale to Walkure, since it features a spectacular image that isn’t motivated by the drama.
The motivation is to arouse his audience.
It’s kind of like Dyson, the hot werewolf on Lost Girl. My husband and I take bets each week on what flimsy excuse they’re going to come up with to get him to take off his shirt THIS episode.
(This week was a bonus — wet, translucent shirt first, THEN he pulled it off. Almost more than my middle-aged heart can take.)
For us old timers, there is also William Holden in Picnic. My did his shirt fly off at the slightest provocation. I saw it at the Castro many years ago. In one scene, William is trying to explain something to a baffled elderly lady. Someone in the audience yelled, “see if it helps if you take your shirt off.”
I hate the fact that they shaved William Holden’s body/chest hair for Picnic. He would have been twice as sexy with it. That’s Hollywood for you.
I agree Clita, more body hair would have been nice. Still it was more naked, male torso than most movies of its time would give us. And it’s got enough screen time to have earned a supporting Oscar nod IMHO.