This is quite an impressive version of the dragon... though the fight is quite difficult to do in Opera. You can have people fighting but an actual dragon fighting a hero? It can play out as deliberately padded while the music builds up. Still, it's better than some dragons, playing it like an Eldritch monster.
@craigwalters8 ай бұрын
Very difficult to stage without it coming across as silly
@MrThorfan648 ай бұрын
@craigwalters oh I agree. I've seen a lot of versions that look rather silly, Siegfried just standing there. Trying to actually do a dragon on stage is difficult. I recall that the Copenhagen version had Fafner like an evil Wizard of Oz, with Siegfried trying to fight his way through tentacles into a pit.
@mikeobrien1559 Жыл бұрын
What's up with the drunken Kung Fu moves?
@DAAspden Жыл бұрын
Yes, the music sounds like a proper fight. You can see the dragon recoiling and fighting, trying to get a proper strike into the darting hero but when you've got the lumpen reality... ...he moves as upon a doll and must pad it out. They should make a cartoon of it and project it on the stage at that moment.
@mikeobrien1559 Жыл бұрын
@@DAAspden Imagine how weird it would be with marionettes.🤢
@DAAspden Жыл бұрын
@@mikeobrien1559 The String Ring?
@mikeobrien1559 Жыл бұрын
@@DAAspden 😻
@Blokewood3 Жыл бұрын
When it comes to actual fighting...this one is probably the best. Most other stage Fafners are barely able to move their limbs or take a blow, so there's just a lot of standing around or Siegfried cutting at air. I don't think Wagner gave much thought to how anyone was supposed to actually put this onstage when he wrote it.
@TheR923 жыл бұрын
I love how the dragon looks like an eldritch horror
@DAAspden3 жыл бұрын
Eldritch - new word. Will have to look it up.
@moiraclegg33802 жыл бұрын
@@DAAspden It doesn't look like an eldritch horror. It's pretty feeble!
@kirstendonovan40924 жыл бұрын
0:21
@andresabatata2384 жыл бұрын
Igual
@jefolson69895 жыл бұрын
It was a nebulous pile. More of a blob.
@elistevens53505 жыл бұрын
wonder how they did the dragon, i heard it was described as a living horror.
@deanrantz11125 жыл бұрын
Der Drache...The Beast from Forbidden Planet /Little Shop of Horrors.....Glad Trash bag Mashup
@knightofarkronia99685 жыл бұрын
Sorry, but how is that supposed to be a dragon? It looks more like something from H.P. Lovecraft’s reject bin.
@nathanschafer64204 жыл бұрын
You try being a stage director for something like this
@moiraclegg33802 жыл бұрын
Yes! I am surprised that so far I've looked at several and haven't seen a terrific dragon yet! Need Hollywood!
@Moby2288 жыл бұрын
name of the song?
@DAAspden8 жыл бұрын
+Moby228 Prelude to Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner.
@Drew_McTygue8 жыл бұрын
You could superimpose a logarithmic spiral on a lump of turds if you wanted to.
@literallyproblematicgeek11528 жыл бұрын
+Drew McTygue so, that's a yes?
@Drew_McTygue8 жыл бұрын
+Literally Problematic Geek Yea that's right, you're dumb. You shouldn't have dropped out of school before learning 9th grade math dude, that was a big mistake.
@leland618 жыл бұрын
Hope that's a gun sight.
@Drew_McTygue8 жыл бұрын
that's the golden spiral. Cretin.
@leland618 жыл бұрын
Well. damn.
@BadlanderOutsider8 жыл бұрын
+Drew McTygue No need to be nasty to someone from Crete.
@Drew_McTygue8 жыл бұрын
+BadlanderOutsider hahahaha, yea you're right buddy; i meant cretin those Cretans are alright