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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0044007432648
Format: AC-3, Box set, Classical, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Label: Decca
Languages: GermanOriginal LanguageDTS 5.1ChineseSubtitledEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledGermanSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Decca
Number Of Discs: 7
Number Of Items: 7
Publisher: Decca
Release Date: August 12, 2008
Running Time: 920 minutes
Studio: Decca
Theatrical Release Date: 2006

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
First release of the acclaimed recent Ring Cycle production at the Royal Danish Opera. Striking, memorable and controversial staging by Kasper Bech Holten. The action, experienced as an extended flashback, presents Wagner s epic as a family saga from a feminist perspective. The production is visually stunning, disturbing and at times explicit. Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- A Provincial Ring
If you are a pro-Wagnerian, you probably don't mind spending $80 for a provincial Ring. If you are a novice, Chéreau/Boulez's Ring is the one to go. If you do mind spending $80 just for The three Norns and/or the discussion of the Queen and the producer, then save your money for a bottle of Bordeaux or single malt.

Rating:

- Copenhagen Ring
This is a very uneven production of the Ring, it is perhaps the best dramatic version of the Ring, but many in the cast are weak, and this is above all true of Brunhilde who is so foolishly made the center of this production. I regret that I bought this and would be happy to sell it.
tjja@verizon.net

Rating:

- A Ring that makes you think
People are calling the Copenhagen Ring the feminist Ring and that is certainly true. The meta-structure is Brunnhilde discovering her heritage at the end of Act II of Gotterdamerung. That is certainly true. But it is also a relational Ring. I have seldom seen the level of interaction between characters in an opera. The video helps (or hurts depending on your prejudices) by its close ups especially of other characters than the one singing. For example in Rheingold Woman and Loge are casing Alberich's ... Read More

Rating:

- Absolutely Magnificent
In many ways this by far the best Ring on DVD and I have had three others and parts of a fourth. One, the Levine, I gave away. While updated to the 20th century, this is NOT Euro-trash and all in all as drama it works splendidly, particularly in the so called "boring parts". A group of singing actors soar into the drama with no holds barred and they play to a very knowing camera crew who keep the drama of the moment alive by at times focusing appropriately on how an other character respond to what is ... Read More

Rating:

- The best DVD production of the Ring
This Ring is different from all other Rings on DVD and is mostly successful in what it aims to bring. It is wonderful to have this pinnacle of operatic spectacles in a staging worthy of the subject, a stage with `actors who can sing' as Wagner wished it. The singers do act as if in a movie and the DVD has been filmed as a dramatic movie, not as a static stage performance though a live stage performance it of course is. This may at times be a bit tiresome as images and image angles may seem to switch a bit ... Read More

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