When he renounces love he drains the water from the tanks in a very telling gesture. When Alberich encounters the Rhinemaidens they are each singing in individual glass tanks suspended above the stage. The production has some wonderful and memorable moments. This is the group responsible for the opening ceremony of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and they certainly have no problems with large-scale dramatic choreography. The hallmarks of La Fura dels Baus are the inventive and effective video projections and the use of stage acrobats. Padrissa reproduces the well-documented and much-discussed Valencia Ring that debuted between 20 and is currently available on DVD and Blu-ray from Unitel. Rather than design from scratch a new production of Wagner's Ring Cycle, the Houston Grand Opera took the interesting step of outsourcing the production to the Catalan theater company La Fura dels Baus under the direction of Carlus Padrissa. Houston, TX Wortham Theater Center, 13 April 2014 Director: Carlus Padrissa/La Fura Dels Baus
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