![]() More importantly the visuals be part of the story line. I guess this was the reason movies were important for me as the image was there for me to see. All the wonderful descriptive prose of Hardy and Dickens I appreciated as clever and precise brought no image to my mind. I only recently realised that I had no visualisation abilities. An unbelievably bright red light shone on it for the fire surrounding Brunhilde. Vertical poles now for the forest with Fafner as the dragon lurking in the background. The rainbow bridge was made up of the large horizontal metallic poles as Valhalla with the eventually various colours reflected on them. Later the idea continued in the background. The Rhine was massive thick blue ropes draped over the proscenium. ![]() ![]() Many were so distracting it was difficult to concentrate on the music. Unfortunately the Ring in Melbourne late 2013 was the complete opposite with few visuals making sense or giving pleasure. Although a modern style production its imagery was visually satisfying and no guess work was needed to understand what was happening on stage. Reginald Goodall conducted Australian Rita Hunter as Brunnhilde and Alberto Remedios from Liverpool as Siegfried.Īs it was my first it was exciting and magnificent. In the midst of the eight week Prom season of nightly concerts in 1973 I had to sacrifice four of them to attend my first Ring Cycle at the English National Opera in London. In 1973 I left Melbourne Australia for London desperate for more than ten orchestral concerts a year and a month of opera. A review and comparison with the 1973 English National Opera Ring Cycle
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