Sigfried

Perhaps the childish side of Wagner ...anyway, there could be worse in Parsifal

Tiger wrote:

Sigfried Primera Parte - Parte 6 de 11

http://www.youtube.c...0N0LEUE#t=3m36s

How do you consider this scene, I mean the tenor with the hammer in hand... every time I see it, any singer seems almost ridiculed to me.

Does it only happen to me?

The Ring Cycle is a fairy tale. If you don't start from that premise, everything is ridiculous. That being said, in this particular production (the one you are pointing out), everything does indeed seem a bit ridiculous, but try looking at more important productions (Karajan, Pierre Chereau) and I think you might change your mind.

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You're right Carlos... I had some suspicions, that's why I was asking.

Anyway the point is that after a long, unexciting part, this scene arrives ... you know what I mean...?

I am a lover of Wagner, as is known... and in my opinion, rather than as a fairy tale, it should be understood as Fantasy. Think of The Lord of the Rings and imagine an ideal staging, something sublime in the romantic sense, a gigantic dark cavern with granite walls and a very high vault (Moria in The Lord of the Rings, to be clear...) and inside a muscular blond man who forges himself a divine sword, which is one of the leitmotifs of the opera (created by Wotan, thrust into a tree that is probably the tree of life, taken by his son, broken by Wotan himself with his spear, made from the wood of the tree of life, and then reforged by the grandson, who knows no fear and who with that same sword will break the God's spear...).

That being said, Siegfried was meant to be a kind of comic interlude or, at any rate, something light. And this piece is called The Sword Song (Il Lied della spada), because it is a Lied... so it should also be sung with more lightness

Marebu wrote:

...anyway, there could be worse in Parsifal

In fact, there is no limit to how much worse it can get

http://markronan.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/1-pa_003.jpg

... adult .... dressed as a little sailor, the Parsifal seen this year in Bayreuth seemed to me, more than a pure madman, a perfect idiot.

I hate certain opera directors... they could be fed to carnivorous plants ... deluding them into thinking they are flower-maidens.

What indecent rubbish!

searching online, I found this interview with the director, Stefan Herheim. Not having seen the production I don't know what to say, but from the other photos and explanations, it seems like a fascinating thing... and it seems to have been acclaimed by both audience and critics...

http://www.wagneropera.net/Interviews/Stefan-Herheim-Parsifal-Interview.htm

Points of view...Thallo