![]() ![]() ![]() (The first two operas were introduced last summer.) And as promised, this is the greenest ''Ring'' imaginable. 5 with ''Das Rheingold,'' then continued with ''Die Walküre'' on Monday, ''Siegfried'' on Wednesday and ''Götterdämmerung'' on Friday. The resulting $14.5 million production, conducted by Franz Vote and designed by Thomas Lynch, was unveiled complete last week despite a near-calamity involving the tenor singing Siegfried. The director Stephen Wadsworth, who leaped at the idea, got the nod. When planning began seven years ago, Speight Jenkins, the company's general director, sent letters to potential stage directors proposing a ''green 'Ring,' '' an idea he thought especially appropriate to the Pacific Northwest. We have had abstract ''Rings,'' industrial-age ''Rings,'' space-age ''Rings,'' ''Rings'' set in Victorian drawing rooms and punk-rock clubs.įor its much-anticipated new production of the ''Ring,'' the Seattle Opera wanted to restore the work to its ruggedly natural setting. Of course many stage directors, including the composer's grandson Wieland Wagner, have not felt compelled to present the ''Ring'' naturalistically. Later scenes are set in the depths of the forest, subterranean caverns, wild craggy expanses and rocky cliffs bounded by pine forests. We meet the god Wotan and his wife, Fricka, atop a wooded mountain, with the castle of Valhalla visible on a summit in the background. ''Das Rheingold,'' the first of the cycle's four operas, begins under a greenish twilight in the swirling waters of the river. ![]() The scenic descriptions are precise and poetic. If anything is clear about ''Der Ring des Nibelungen,'' it is that Wagner intended his multifaceted operatic telling of Norse myths to be set amid nature. ![]()
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