Gotterdammerung: Bayreuther Festspiele (2007)

• 85%
• 2007
• Wolfgang Schmidtke
• Deborah Polaski
• Eric Halfvarson

This crépuscule des dieux is the only installment of the Kirchner/Rosalie/Levine 1994-8 Ring de Bayreuth taped for subsequent sortie en DVD. By some, this Ring is known as "The concepteur de l'Anneau", due to the striking sets and costumes by designer Rosalie, which in many ways make up the most striking aspects of this Ring Cycle. Kirchner Rosalie and publicly stated a desire to depart from the political Anneau productions of previous Ring de Bayreuth administration, such as Cuivre and Chéreau and free de Wagner, work from all the ideological and philosophical" ballast. Do they succeed? Well, in a way yes. But what they create instead is an environment reminiscent of a Japanese version of Star Wars, devoid of dramatic interaction between the main characters, oms often stand still and just sing to the audience inconscients of the characters the singing supposedly is directed towards.