Die Walküre
(Der Ring Des Nibelungen)
of Richard Wagner
Opera in III acts.
Representation December 4, 2010 (Preview dedicated to Youth ) to Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
Music and libretto by Richard Wagner . Directed by Guy
Cassiers
Director Daniel Barenboim
page dedicated
When The Valkyrie was announced as a work for the First was also satisfied. Then thinking about it a bit 'more cold the idea of seeing a work of Wagner, the second is more of a cycle m'attirava not so much. I must admit that it is not out of scale in love with this work, far from it. We take the
: Wagner is verbose! It takes them hours to say what you say in other works in 5 minutes, resulting in the Valkyrie takes less than 5 hours, with only two breaks. The acts last respectively 60, 90 and 70 minutes. And there's even a scene change to pull a bit 'breath. Also this is terribly static. There are hours of "now I'll tell you what I think" without anything or anyone another face.
will then be that the Germanic mythology little I understand, and therefore I found the plot between the boring and unbearable (son of Siegmund are the worst I've ever seen god, you're an incompetent and even cowardly), but even the music is able to move me. Except for some parts, the rest m'è passed away without a trace. The Ride I expected a powerful and impressive instead you chose to make it just great. Oh I also understand that having to sing on maybe it was not necessary to give "volume" to the orchestra, especially since they were two hundred (number metaphorically)! Surely there was the beauty of six harps, 10 cellos, 8 double basses, just to mention the tools that I was more surprised by the number. Rents were rents, so that the drum was played virtually the front door of the orchestra pit.
Otherwise the scale has not disappointed me, as always, costumes and set designs I really liked. Much more than the costumes (to Brünnhilde **_**), the set was undoubtedly impact but sometimes the meaning remained obscure. Unfortunately, less than half the first act is missing one of the two projectors, and we did all the work with half the stage-level projections, but nevertheless did not suffer much (except just in the first when the loss is even more noticeable after the start was made with everything working).
To conclude this is the first work in German and I was not satisfied, but I also subscribe to the Magic Flute by Mozart, we will see that. Maybe it also effect language XD
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