Siegfried — HDVDARTS

Wagner Siegfried to a libretto by the composer. Directed 2012 by Guy Cassiers at Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Stars Lance Ryan (Siedfried), Peter Bronder (Mime), Terje Stensvold (The Wanderer), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Anna Larsson (Erda), Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), and Rinnat Moriah (Waldvogels). Daniel Barenboim conducts the Orchestra of the Teatro Alla Scala. Set design by Guy Cassiers; set and lighting design by Enrico Bagnoli; costume design by Tim van Steenbergen; video design by Arjen Klerkx and Kurt D'Haeseleer; choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Directed for TV by Emanuele Garafalo. Sung in German. Released 2014, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio. Grade: NA

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Feb 25. We have just completed one of our most ambitious reviews: Einstein on the Beach opera, the surreal 4 and 1/2 hour cult legend. Kudos, encomiums, and accolades to Opus Arte for giving us this authoritative and weirdly fascinating recording, which we grade A+. Absorbing and learning Einstein is uniquely challenging. We try to help out by providing aids not included in the keepcase materials: an accurate libretto and a list of segments in the opera with correct Opus Arte time stamps. Good luck!

We have some other good grades with an A for the recent Met The Pearl Fishers (Les pêcheurs de perles) and a B- for an earlier The Pearl Fishers from Naples. Also, we recently gave an A- for the new Don Quixote from the Vienna State Ballet.