Something With a ‘Ring’ to It
Cycle II represented an embarrassment of musical riches.
Greer Grimsley
14 pieces since 2010 — in 6 roles, at 4 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
14
pieces
6
roles
4
companies
17
years
8 pieces as Wotan — stats above show all coverage for Greer Grimsley.
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Teenager in love
Stefan Vinke’s Siegfried was not so much brawny and terrestrial, but heady and mercurial
Oh my goddess!
Die Walküre crystallizes the cycle’s questions, ideas, and stakes.
Domino theory
The Metropolitan Opera delivers on the promise of Wagner’s Gesamtkunswerk in a revival of Robert Lepage’s Ring.
Human, all too human
Siegfried is, in a sense, The Ring’s odd one out.
The hipster demigoddess
If Das Rheingold is an opera about infinitude, the illusory idea that the world is large enough to satisfy all of our desires, passions, and lusts, Die Walküre is an opera about scarcity.
Walvater knows best
There is a mighty appetite among both old Wagnerians and new ones to see a Ring that follows—if not too slavishly—the scenic requests of the libretto.
Bark, not Bayreuth
Is Der Ring des Nibelungen responsible for the transformation of Seattle from a gray, damp, low-rise Boeing company town where half the jokes had punchlines in Norwegian (and were about lutefisk in any case) into today's booming cultural metropolis? I like to think so.