![]() ![]() The Valkyries rode their horses in a straight line across the top of the structure, stiff and unconvincing, sliding down to the ground, as on diving boards, where they placed cloths on the ground - to indicate horses or feeding or the dead warriors? Brunhilde’s mountain at one stage became an iceberg, and one that featured falling glaciers, in white and grey. No stretch of the imagination could visualise a bridge - something about brightly lit parallel lines? How did the poor singers climb that vertical structure? With difficulty. The lighting effects often looked like giant billboards in primary coloured neon lights. Great big lumbering structures, frequently wheezing and groaning as they move, perilous for the singers, the Rhine Maidens hang from easily spotted ropes, it was all about itself. It seemed to have little or nothing to do with Wagner or the operas or the messages therein. (There are eighteen names listed as staff for the Machine project!) (Just think what that money could do for the ailing finances of the Met Opera!) However, it must be said that there are people who like it. Robert Lepage’s 45 tonne, 17 or is it 23 million dollar, twenty four panel ego trip. Regrettably, the Met Ring is all or too much about The Machine.
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