Yeah, I gather Wagner pioneered the idea of making opera a fully immersive experience.drmoss_ca wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 5:13 am... Best experience was a four nighter - the first Ring Cycle in Canada to mark the opening of the new opera house in Toronto. What an experience - to have ~16 hours of music, costumes, acting, sets, all spread over five days. You spend the days trying to make sense of the story and what it might mean, attending lectures, and thinking, talking and dreaming of nothing else. You enter a weird state akin to to the delusional mood of pre-psychosis, aware your mind has been taken over and occupied by something alien. ...
But who's got time for sitting through all 16 hours of it?
Anna Russell explains it all in 28 minutes, with “The Ring of the Nibelungs" (An Analysis), performing and singing all the parts by herself.
Badda-boom badda-bing!
She's a hoot.
Best Concert Experience that I totally missed because I didn't even know about it until a week later, even though I lived only one block away from the (small and intimate) venue - Ashley MacIsaac (a kickass fiddler) at George's Roadhouse.