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Calixto Bieito takes on Wagner’s Ring Cycle, a quarter century after first shocking audiences
Provoking boos 25 years ago for radical stagings saturated with sex and violence, Calixto Bieito at age 61 has transformed ...
The Hamilton Spectator8d
Calixto Bieito takes on Wagner’s Ring Cycle, a quarter century after first shocking audiences
PARIS (AP) — Calixto Bieito turned introspective as he sat in a cafe across from the Opéra Bastille, where his production of the first night Wagner’s Ring Cycle was to premiere the following day.
U.S. News & World Report8d
Calixto Bieito Takes on Wagner's Ring Cycle, a Quarter Century After First Shocking Audiences
Calixto Bieito Takes on Wagner's Ring Cycle, a Quarter Century After First ... snorting Don Juan and was booed at the English National Opera on opening night. A 2004 staging of Mozart’s ...
BroadwayWorld29d
Interview: “It’s An Extraordinary Experience”: Conductor Ben Woodward on Buying Regents Opera and Completing Wagner’s RING CYCLE
Fulham Opera became Regents Opera ... Nonetheless, the idea of a complete Ring cycle was born. Woodward set about creating an arrangement for 22 instruments, but ideally, “as many strings ...
The New York Times24d
How Directors Mine the Gold at the Heart of Wagner’s ‘Ring’
Is it tactile? Invisible? For Wagner, the magic gold that is stolen from the bottom of the Rhine at the start of his four-opera “Ring” cycle, setting the plot in motion, was a tangible ...
Times Colonist8d
Calixto Bieito takes on Wagner's Ring Cycle, a quarter century after first shocking audiences
(Monika Rittershaus via AP) PARIS (AP) — Calixto Bieito turned introspective as he sat in a cafe across from the Opéra Bastille, where his production of the first night Wagner’s Ring Cycle ...