et après ça, la ville

This production is silly & Treleaven is mostly terrible but even 15 years past his prime, John Tomlinson is the very best. 

« These girls in a river have this gold and a dwarf steals it and makes a ring from it. The head god Wotan gets the gold back but there’s a death curse on the ring and these two giants get the gold and one kills the other and then turns into a dragon to guard it. Wotan wants the ring so he decides his illegitimate human son Siegmund will get it for him. Siegmund meanwhile falls in love with his long lost sister Sieglinde. He picks a fight with her husband so Wotan gets Brünnhilde to protect him, then changes his mind and orders her to kill Siegmund instead. But she doesn’t want to so Wotan gets Sieglinde’s husband to kill him and then Wotan kills the husband too just for the hell of it. He punishes Brünnhilde by putting her to sleep on a mountain in a ring of fire. Sieglinde has Siegmund’s baby Siegfried and she dies so the kid is raised by the brother of the dwarf who stole the gold because he figures Siegfried can get the gold back for him. Sure enough, Siegfried grows up, kills the dragon, drinks its blood, can suddenly understand birds, decides to keep the ring for himself, kills the dwarf and wanders off into the woods to find a wife. That’s where wives can be found, I guess, for there is Brünnhilde. He wakes her, they fall in love. However, there’s this king Günther whose halfbrother Hagen wants him to marry Brünnhilde and wants her halfsister Gutrunde to marry Siegfried. Hagen’s father was the dwarf who started this whole mess, so this is just another plot to get the ring which Brünnhilde now has. Because of a love potion Siegfried falls in love with Gutrunde then takes the form of Günther, gets the ring back and claims Brünnhilde for Günther’s bride. Brünnhilde is a little peeved over this and tells Hagen that Siegfried’s protective spell doesn’t cover his back. Hagen kills Siegfried and then kills Günther too. Brünnhilde grabs the ring back and throws herself onto Siegfried’s burning funeral pyre. The river maidens fight with Hagen over the ring and pull him down to drown him. The flames from the fire spread to Walhall and all the gods die too. The end. »

I can’t be the only one who strongly associates the Trash Heap from Fraggle Rock with Erda from Rheingold, right ?

Christa Ludwig chante le récit de Waltraute

Does Die Walküre pass the Bechdel test ?

Creeper Loge is my favorite Loge.