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- Jackson Braider
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- "The Ring and I: The Passion, The Myth, The Mania"
- Summary: "The Ring and I" is a story about the love affair between hundreds of thousands of people and one, colossal, controversial and awe-inspiring piece of work, Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung.
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Review of The Ring and I: The Passion, The Myth, The Mania
Jackson Braider
Posted on March 17, 2004 at 04:59 AM
There is nothing not to like here. The interviews are fun and insightful, great characters everywhere. Intriguing settings -- I'm particularly fond of the slightly out-of-tune piano and the behind-the-scenes at the Met stuff. My only complaint is that the program itself is Wagnerian as defined at the end: knowing the task is impossible, the Valiant Producers still pursued this particular grail (oops! wrong opera!). In sum, Bravo!