{"id":1475,"date":"2012-02-11T08:23:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T13:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicaltorontodotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2012-02-11T08:23:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T13:23:34","slug":"noon-today-a-saturday-in-the-company-of-robert-lepages-take-on-wagners-gotterdammerung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/02\/11\/noon-today-a-saturday-in-the-company-of-robert-lepages-take-on-wagners-gotterdammerung\/","title":{"rendered":"Noon today: A Saturday in the company of Robert LePage&#8217;s take on Wagner&#8217;s G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/met-gotterdammerung-jpeg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1477\" title=\"Opera Gotterdammerung\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/met-gotterdammerung-jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/met-gotterdammerung-jpeg.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/met-gotterdammerung-jpeg-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It will take six hours for Wagner&#8217;s incestuous mess of gods and humans to succumb to fire and water, in the final installment of Robert Lepage&#8217;s monumentalist take on the Ring Cycle, today on CBC Radio as well as at Cineplex theatres.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my favourite opera in the cycle, and always feels the shortest.<\/p>\n<p>For all the details on today&#8217;s performance, check out these sites: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metoperafamily.org\/metopera\/liveinhd\/LiveinHD.aspx?icamp=rodint&amp;iloc=hptab\" target=\"_blank\">the Met<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cineplex.com\/Movies\/MovieDetails\/G-tterd-mmerung-Wagner-German-w-e-s-t-.aspx?date=2012-02-11\" target=\"_blank\">Cineplex<\/a>, and CBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio2\/sato\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Afternoon at the Opera<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In case you only have six minutes instead of six hours, here&#8217;s a cut to the grand finale, with today&#8217;s big star, Deborah Voight singing Br\u00fcnhilde&#8217;s Immolation Scene:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/22Zy5eng5TE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Here, for comparison&#8217;s sake, is a classic performance from 1990 from the Met&#8217;s old production, designed by\u00a0G\u00fcnther Schneider-Siemssen and directed by Otto Schenk, complete with a burning and collapsing Valhalla, featuring the formidable Hildegaard Behrens as Br\u00fcnhilde. James Levine conducts:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dpzwvlEVLgM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will take six hours for Wagner&#8217;s incestuous mess of gods and humans to succumb to fire and water, in the final installment of Robert Lepage&#8217;s monumentalist take on the Ring Cycle, today on CBC Radio as well as at Cineplex theatres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,39,43],"tags":[678,1240,1459,1556,1669,2204,2207,6467,2838,2861],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/met-gotterdammerung-jpeg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-nN","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}