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Four straight 'Rings' an intense epic
The Charlotte Observer Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:59 PM PDT
Richard Wagner dreamed of doing it this way: The four operas of his "Ring" cycle performed over four consecutive nights, totaling more than 18 hours of musical theater. When the final curtain came down on "Goetterdaemmerung" late Thursday at the Metropolitan Opera House, 75 1/2 hours after the first notes sounded, the capacity crowd of 4,000 "Ring" devotees cheered for the hardworking singers of ...