Wagner Ring Cycle Dvd Reviews

Wagner s ring mike ashman sunday january 13 2019 can any one reading of wagner s epic operatic cycle ever satisfy the demands of its huge audiences.

Wagner ring cycle dvd reviews.

Coupled with a bonus dvd of der ring des nibelungen documentary. Der ring des nibelungen 11 dvd. It s hard for me to not love a wagner opera and the ring cycle was my first exposure to a complete performance being the solti ring on eleven reels of tape. Mike ashman visits the musical immortals and the younger gods of today to deliver his verdict on the complete ring on record.

The most famous the most performed the most thrilling and the most recorded opera cycle in music history. An interactive guide to wagner s ring cycle. A unique and exclusive package on multi blu ray set of the most successful ring cycle production of the 21th century. Each opera had a different cast and different director with the only continuity being the staatsorchester stuttgart under the baton of lothar zagrosek.

First off this review applies only to the kultur release of barenboim s bayreuth ring cycle wagner. I attended the previous production of rheingold at the met back in probably the mid 80 s when it was the new production. First off this review applies only to the kultur release of barenboim s bayreuth ring cycle wagner. The 2002 2003 ring cycle from the staatsoper stuttgart released on dvd by tdk euroarts in 2004 was to put it mildly a controversial production.

The bayreuth production directed by patrice. Ring des nibelungen der wagner s dream 8 dvd review. Der ring des nibelungen 11 dvd. Der ring des nibelungen complete ring cycle levine metropolitan opera by hildegard behrens dvd 72 78 in stock.

I can t say it s my favorite ring that goes to either keilberth or krauss. And that ring i still own on laserdisk and dvd. This ring takes the shelf space of only two of the operas and warner s price is more than competitive. Ships from and sold by record plant.

But with the solti it s one of the two most sonically up to date. A bonus dvd offers scenes from the videos. This is a cd rom created by monte stone in 1997. It has the entire 14 5 hours of solti s version as a compressed file on one single disc in mono sound with the complete piano vocal score and the german libretto with english translation and commentaries.

Warner classics had previously issued the same performance in der ring des nibelungen 7 dvd and ring des nibelungen 7 dvd.