OT - Ring Cycle on PBS - The Orange Mane

broncosteven · 09-11-2012, 07:40 PM

One of the greatest feats of musical composition is on PBS this week. Wagner's Ring, tonight is Das Rheingold which is on now in Chicago via WTTW, tomorrow is Die Walkurie, Thursday is Siegfried, and Friday is my personal favorite of all time, Gotterdammerung.

Get out of the cave and check it out, you might actually like some of it. It is an incredible new staging by a director who has done Circ de Soleil with a moving stage where the chick playing Brunhilde actually took a dive on opening night. If anything watch just to see if anyone falls or gets stuck. They have lots of 3D visual effects and flying mermaids and fire and snakes and swords and rainbow bridges and stuff that the comic's stole from liberally.

Watch and see where the phrase "It is not over until the fat lady sings" got started.

Mods, I know it is football season...sorry but this is special, to me at least...

Swedish Extrovert · 09-11-2012, 08:10 PM

Truly a genius. Too bad he was a Nazi bastard.

ghwk · 09-11-2012, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by broncosteven

One of the greatest feats of musical composition is on PBS this week. Wagner's Ring, tonight is Das Rheingold which is on now in Chicago via WTTW, tomorrow is Die Walkurie, Thursday is Siegfried, and Friday is my personal favorite of all time, Gotterdammerung.

Get out of the cave and check it out, you might actually like some of it. It is an incredible new staging by a director who has done Circ de Soleil with a moving stage where the chick playing Brunhilde actually took a dive on opening night. If anything watch just to see if anyone falls or gets stuck. They have lots of 3D visual effects and flying mermaids and fire and snakes and swords and rainbow bridges and stuff that the comic's stole from liberally.

Watch and see where the phrase "It is not over until the fat lady sings" got started.

Mods, I know it is football season...sorry but this is special, to me at least...

Hey Mr Culture, my mom is totally into it. Me I'm gonna pass!

broncocalijohn · 09-11-2012, 08:34 PM

B.S. when did the Mane page become your personal soapbox during the football season? If you have to put O.T. in the title, you know better. Get this uppity crap off the Mane page and let us talk football.
Signed,
Rock Chalk

(and everyone else)

seriously?

broncosteven · 09-11-2012, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Mightysmurf

Truly a genius. Too bad he was a Nazi bastard.

Werner Von Braun was a Nazi Genius/bastard. During WWII but only difference Wagner pre-dated the NAZI party buy over 100 years. So one could not say Wagner was a Nazi. The conductors that played Wagner for Hitler were Nazis. great conductors like Von Karajan, and Furtwangler.

Wagner wrote an epistle about how the Jews have ruined society or something later in his life, he was surly anti-smetic and Hitler fell in love with his music because of the way he thought. more than anything. Hater using Hate to his advantage.

broncosteven · 09-11-2012, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by ghwk

Hey Mr Culture, my mom is totally into it. Me I'm gonna pass!

I wouldn't pass so quickly, it could come up in Survivor this coming year!

Glad you mom likes it she must be the brains of the fambly unit.

broncosteven · 09-11-2012, 08:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by broncocalijohn

B.S. when did the Mane page become your personal soapbox during the football season? If you have to put O.T. in the title, you know better. Get this uppity crap off the Mane page and let us talk football.
Signed,
Rock Chalk

(and everyone else)

seriously?

When a once every 4 year Cycle of 4 Operas and 16 hours of music is shown over a period of 4 nights. Kinda like the Olympics of music Enjoy!

broncocalijohn · 09-11-2012, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by broncosteven

When a once every 4 year Cycle of 4 Operas and 16 hours of music is shown over a period of 4 nights. Kinda like the Olympics of music Enjoy!

Maybe I will have my wife start a scrapbooking thread right in the Mane page. My son wants to talk baseball cards, I think this is the perfect place. Joey wants to talk Legos so I might have him start a thread too.

Take this where it belongs. Ratings will be lower than a Marlins baseball game....from 5 years ago. This is worse than soccer threads.

broncocalijohn · 09-11-2012, 08:51 PM

Never mind Steven, thread has already been moved I see. Now there is more room for Bronco ROb to cut n paste an article.

Broncos_OTM · 09-11-2012, 09:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mightysmurf

Truly a genius. Too bad he was a Nazi bastard.

I got money says you would have been a nazi as well.

classical music... like it but have to be in the mood.

agree though don't deem it front page worthy.

: -/

Broncos_OTM · 09-11-2012, 09:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by broncocalijohn

Maybe I will have my wife start a scrapbooking thread right in the Mane page. My son wants to talk baseball cards, I think this is the perfect place. Joey wants to talk Legos so I might have him start a thread too.

Take this where it belongs. Ratings will be lower than a Marlins baseball game....from 5 years ago. This is worse than soccer threads.

blasphemy... soccer... footie owns

broncosteven · 09-11-2012, 09:15 PM

I tried to get the word out, no one goes into the OT forum unless they are KFCDud looking for friends on Saturday nights.

ghwk · 09-11-2012, 10:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by broncosteven

I wouldn't pass so quickly, it could come up in Survivor this coming year!

Glad you mom likes it she must be the brains of the fambly unit.

Actually when I saw your post I called her to let her know it was on. Apparently she was watching it because over the phone it sounded like a thousand gerbils screaming from a good assraping from Richard Gere.

I saw Madam Butterfly at the Sydney Opera house, it was quite good. At that point opera was checked off my bucket list.

09-11-2012, 07:40 PM	#1
broncosteven The Kranz Dictum MWA: Flight Director Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Tranquility Base Posts: 29,019 Adopt-a-Bronco: MONEYBALL #38	OT - Ring Cycle on PBS One of the greatest feats of musical composition is on PBS this week. Wagner's Ring, tonight is Das Rheingold which is on now in Chicago via WTTW, tomorrow is Die Walkurie, Thursday is Siegfried, and Friday is my personal favorite of all time, Gotterdammerung. Get out of the cave and check it out, you might actually like some of it. It is an incredible new staging by a director who has done Circ de Soleil with a moving stage where the chick playing Brunhilde actually took a dive on opening night. If anything watch just to see if anyone falls or gets stuck. They have lots of 3D visual effects and flying mermaids and fire and snakes and swords and rainbow bridges and stuff that the comic's stole from liberally. Watch and see where the phrase "It is not over until the fat lady sings" got started. Mods, I know it is football season...sorry but this is special, to me at least...

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09-11-2012, 08:10 PM	#2
Swedish Extrovert President of the Universe Formerly known as mightysmurf Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Highlands Ranch Posts: 14,941 Adopt-a-Bronco: Joel Dreesen	Truly a genius. Too bad he was a Nazi bastard.

09-11-2012, 08:34 PM	#4
broncocalijohn Famer of Rings My Dog Richard Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lake Forest, Orange County, Calif. Posts: 18,463 Adopt-a-Bronco: Simon Fletcher	B.S. when did the Mane page become your personal soapbox during the football season? If you have to put O.T. in the title, you know better. Get this uppity crap off the Mane page and let us talk football. Signed, Rock Chalk (and everyone else) seriously?

09-11-2012, 08:51 PM	#9
broncocalijohn Famer of Rings My Dog Richard Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lake Forest, Orange County, Calif. Posts: 18,463 Adopt-a-Bronco: Simon Fletcher	Never mind Steven, thread has already been moved I see. Now there is more room for Bronco ROb to cut n paste an article.

09-11-2012, 09:15 PM	#12
broncosteven The Kranz Dictum MWA: Flight Director Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Tranquility Base Posts: 29,019 Adopt-a-Bronco: MONEYBALL #38	I tried to get the word out, no one goes into the OT forum unless they are KFCDud looking for friends on Saturday nights.