Event overview
Conducted by Zubin Mehta, the 2007-09 performances at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia, Spain will be shown in full over 4 nights
Dr Berta Joncus has arranged for a screening of Wagner's full Ring Cycle, starting on Tuesday 19 March. These beautifully edited versions of the 2009 performances at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia, Spain are conducted by Zubin Mehta, and featuring, besides internationally renowned singers, the actor-acrobat-dancers La Fura dels Baus and their ground-breaking Ring 3D computer projections.
Cast includes: Juha Uusitalo (Wotan), Jennifer Wilson (Brünnhilde), Lance Ryan (Siegfried) and Matti Salminen (Hagen)
Seating is first come, first served.
It is gargantuan in every way. The “Ring of the Nibelung”, known as the “Ring” cycle, lasts about 15 hours and is performed over four evenings. A new instrument, the “Wagner tuba”, was invented for it; a concert hall, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, constructed for its premiere. Its composer, Richard Wagner (1813-83), began writing the opera in 1848, a year when Europe was torn by nationalist and democratic revolutions, but did not finish it until 26 years later. The finished product is considered the finest piece of musical theatre ever written, a sweeping artistic expression of a period in which the world was swiftly moving towards modernity.
Based on a knitting together of German and Icelandic tales, the opera revolves around a ring, fashioned in gold from the Rhine by Alberich, a dwarf, that grants the power to rule the world. The struggles over the ring lead to love, betrayal and death, as well as the end of the rule of the gods. (Many of these themes are also found in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings”; Tolkien unconvincingly denied that he had been influenced by Wagner.)
(text taken from The Economist article: https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2016/06/23/getting-into-valhalla)
Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold) TUE 19th March, 18.00 @ MRB10 Screen 2 (capacity 45) 2 hours 47 minutes
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) WED 20th March 17.00 @ RHB 353 (capacity 20) 4 hours 5 minutes
Siegfried THU 21st March 17.00 @ MRB10 Screen 2 (capacity 45) 4 hours 16 minutes
Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) FRI 22nd March 17.00 @ MRB10 Screen 2 (capacity 45) 4 hours 40 minutes
Image still taken from the La Fura dels Baus production of Siegfried.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 19 Mar 2019 |
6:00pm - 9:00pm Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold). Venue MRB 10, screen 2 |
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| 20 Mar 2019 |
5:00pm - 9:00pm Die Walküre (The Valkyrie). Venue RHB 353 |
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| 21 Mar 2019 |
5:00pm - 9:15pm Siegfried. Venue MRB 10 screen 2 |
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| 22 Mar 2019 |
5:00pm - 10:00pm Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods). Venue MRB 10 Screen 2 |
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