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Showing posts with label siegfried review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label siegfried review. Show all posts

Friday, October 28, 2011

Opera Review: A Man, a Machine, and a Big Snake

The Met unveils its new Siegfried.
Snake-handler: Tenor Jay Hunter Morris confronts the serpentine Fafner in Act II of Siegfried.
Photo from the dress rehearsal, by Ken Howard © 2011 The Metropolitan Opera.
Even the most ardent Wagner addict finds Siegfried a tough pill to swallow. The necessary "middle chapter" of the Ring has a male-dominated cast, and its story of a genetically perfect super-man killing off dwarves and dragons presents problems for both the singers and the director.

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