The biggest name on the credits is Christian Thielemann, standing in for Daniel Barenboim. The director is Dmitri Tcherniakov.
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I tried to watch, but a pop up says the performance can not be watched from my current location. Would appreciate any advice on how view this from USA.
Try a VPN and set it for a European country.
You are correct, of course. I am in the US and with my VPN set to Germany it worked perfectly.
Watch with your eyes shut tight.
I managed to download it from Scotland. I do not use a Vpn
It’s up and in! Andreas Schager hits Cycle III’s single basket (yes, live in the theater — that’s not re-edited rehearsal footage) Götterdämmerung’s gymnasium staging expects (at 3:39:30). Schager tossed up a brick that didn’t land in Cycle II, and I don’t know how the heldentenor fared Berlin’s first cycle. Can any SD readers from Cycle I report on Siegfried’s overall shooting percentage?
Siegfried’s clutch shot comes, of course, in Götterdämmerung’s penultimate scene, shortly before Brünnhilde tosses off the immolation finale, because, as every basketball fan knows — and, this time, literally — “the opera ain’t over until the fat lady sings.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_ain%27t_over_till_the_fat_lady_sings#Definition
But Wagner was explicit here in his stage directions that Siegfried makes a free throw (insisting that it not be a dunk) and misses the basket for an airball:
“Siegfried macht einen Freiwurf, keinen Dunk, verfehlt den Korb und macht ein Airball” as a symbol of his missed opportunities and his futile efforts.
Ohh, the production was so faithful for 4 operas until the moment of making the basket.