Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen, The Making of - A documentary of Chéreau's centenary production

[@josebenito15]

Thanks to Chereau/Boulez Ring I began seeing Wagner Operas. First on Video and Dvds and later in Opera Houses. P. Chereau showed us Wagner staging to be human and theatrical. Pity He died so young.Thanks so much for uploading this great Documentary 🟥

[@mathildewesendonck7225]

Peter Hofmann and Jeanine Altmeyer were the most beautiful Wälsungen twins ever ❤

[@lilliedoubleyou3865]

Thank you for the upload! My grandparents were able to see this is Bayreuth back in the day, and they actually really liked the staging. It makes me wonder what all these critics would have thought about the "flying harmonica" staging of the MET's Walkurie from a few years ago. Remember that one? Ultra-minimalist. Also, Chereau's vision of the Ring Cycle meets Industrial Age corruption reminds me a LOT of similar themes in another Ring story: Tolkien of course had parallels of modern (over?)industrialization with the corruption of Isengard. So staging the Cycle in this way is not completely out of the realm of possibility. It seems rather like the best kind of art: uniquely creative but still rationally tied to the original material.

[@sabineb.5616]

Thanks for the documentary ! I love the Centennial Ring more than most other productions. Today it's hard to believe that this Ring stirred a storm of negative reactions 😊

[@jaykauffman4775]

Saw the Chereau Ring live at Bayreuth 1978-1980 and remains the greatest production of the Ring I I have ever seen and that takes in many Rings. Now on a beautiful Blu-Ray

[@mathildewesendonck7225]

You are really lucky!! My parents also saw it. My dad collected clippings from the newspapers, and the whole story about the Chéreau production is so crazy. In 1976, people were shocked about the production and it caused a huge riot because it was so different. People actually collected money to cancel the production and pay off Chéreau to leave Bayreuth. And four years later, people loved this production and celebrated it. Curtain call and standing ovation of the last nights of the „Ring“ went on for more than an hour. What was your impression when you first saw it?

[@sabineb.5616]

I just realized that todax it's 10 years ago that Chereau died. He was so young and brave when he staged the so-called "Jahrhundert-Ring". It wasn't a traditional production, but he managed to tell Wagner's stories in a very moving and human way! I wonder if back then many people understood his little joke concerning Loge: the brilliant Heinz Zednik looked and moved like Riff Raff from the Rocky Horror Picture Show 😉 That was quite deliberate, but back then most Wagner fans hadn't seen the movie. It's wonderful that this wonderful Ring is available today for everybody - especially since there weren't many great Ring productions afterwards.

[@ianng9915]

Meanwhile the stuff the temple of the holy German art is doing nowadays…

[@djgualtiermaldeCO]

Poor Bayreuth, it doesn't deserve to be in this state under Katharina. The decadent fourth grade of trash culture

[@tobiaspeter6555]

It's such a shame they didn't have better singers in this fantastic production.

[@cadecannon159]

I didn’t care much for Manfred Jung as Siegfried and maybe they could have used Ortrun Wenkel for Waltraute. I really liked the rest of the cast.

[@Mase251]

@@cadecannon159Right, Jung was the only singer I didn’t like. The rest was very good IMO, Zednik always outstanding

[@cadecannon159]

@@Mase251 he’s such a great actor.

[@Alfonso-mi3np]

It can be read in a billboard “Rauchen Verboten” (no smoking allowed) in 28:40 Patrice Is smoking 😂

[@erwin.schulhoff]

lol I never noticed, a true rebel

[@lucianopavarotti2843]

@@erwin.schulhoff Reminds me of the same thing in the "Golden Ring" documentary about the Solti Decca recording. The sound engineers are all chain smoking an in a studio with a Rauchen Verboten sign, and even the tv interviewer has a cigarette in his mouth

[@chmaunzman]

WEum um Himmels Willen hat man für dieses Jahrhundertereigniss eine 3klassige Besetzung gewählt?

[@lj291261]

Boulez was a horrible conductor. If you want to change the music of the composer, you are overstepping your job as someone who has the one and only task to lead the orchestra playing as exactly as possible what the composer wrote. His Wagner cycle was an affront to Wagner!

[@Mase251]

That’s utterly incorrect. Playing along the notes of Wagner and taking away the „effects“ that typical conductors add to get bravos from the audience was exactly what Boulez did. And suddenly you hear a rhythm, you hear the leitmotifs play and everything becomes „lighter“.

[@Sormeas]

The task a composer has is neither set by the composer, nor the audience, it is simply what he himself intends to do. You as listener have to decide if you want to listen to him. I wouldnt call Stokowski a bad conductor! Without changes and contrast things would become dull too quickly.