I really need to stop posting more than once a day. This is what happens when I work ahead and schedule posts, then have brilliant (?) thoughts that simply can't wait!
So, I watched the beginning of Siegfried last night. I noticed again how much all the characters like to chat about what has already happened. I think you could start right at Götterdämerung and not miss much of the plot of the whole cycle. (Of course you’d miss some great music). Then I got distracted by an email that required a thoughtful response, and heard the opera but didn’t watch as closely for a bit.
When I did manage to look up again, the Machine looked pretty, and I liked how the Woodbird landed on Siegfried. Of course, we could see all of the background scenery on Siegfried. I think Jay Hunter Morris makes a handsome, Scandinavian-looking Siegfried. My impression vocally, however, is that he maybe should protect his lyric tenor by approaching other such heavy roles cautiously—at least for now.
Again, I have it TiVo-ed. Maybe there is a Ring-marathon weekend coming up? Except, I also have an Arabella, a Cenerentola, and Lorin Maazel’s 1984 sitting on top of my DVD stack.
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I too always have trouble waiting to post when I've written something I really like - it's like it'll vanish or something if I don't share.
ReplyDeleteRe: Gotterdammerung and the characters chatting about past events - I think Anna Russell came to much the same conclusion :)
Anna Russell was part of my original post! I thought I was going on too long, (I don't know why. That's never stopped me before!)so I trimmed her out. Anna was my first formal introduction to the Ring.
DeleteI saw the Norns tonight and just started laughing. That and thinking about the fact that every woman Siegfried meets is one of his aunts.