Originally posted by Colonel Danby
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Colonel D- my first live Ring was the previous Prom cycle at ROH- Colin Davis, Dir. Gotz Friedrich. I remember trying to stand up at the end of Gotterdammerung and my legs had gone to sleep! A great experience though and a pretty good production. There was a section of stage mounted on hydraulics that rose and fell throughout the cycle to represent different scenes. Perhaps the most striking use of it was as Wotan summoned Erda in Siegfried. He stood on the very edge and was gradually raised to a great height as Erda appeared below. Highly impressive. And the only time the stage was completely flat, if I remember correctly, was the very beginning of Rheingold, and the very end of Gotterdammerung, which symbolised the whole shebang rather well, I thought.
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