Opera

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Have We Met? Opera Stars Go Behind-the-Scenes In ‘Wagner’s Dream’

“It was all good,” said the tenor Jay Hunter Morris at the recent Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Wagner’s Dream. “I said yes to everything. The cameras aren’t the hardest part. The hardest part is singing Siegfried.”

Mr. Morris was discussing his role in Wagner’s Dream, a documentary about the production process of the Ring cycle at the Metropolitan Opera. Filmmaker Susan Froemke took her cameras through the planning of Robert Lepage’s complicated set and through the rehearsals at which Deborah Voigt and Mr. Morris learned their challenging roles. “There really were no limits,” Ms. Froemke told us. Read More

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To Do Wednesday: Ring Me Up

We’re very interested in Wagner’s Ring cycle—you know, academically. But sitting through 16 hours of opera? Honey, Bobby Jr. is expecting us at the Riverkeeper benefit tomorrow, and we have to squeeze in a manicure! We’d much rather get briefed on what we really need to know at today’s panel discussion at the Tribeca Film Read More