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Sing Faster The Stagehands Ring Cycle
With its massive set designs and 17-hour running time, Richard Wagner`s RING CYCLE is the most daunting production an opera house can stage. Jon Else`s award-winning documentary SING FASTER chronicles the San Francisco Opera`s undertaking of the epic... With its massive set designs and 17-hour running time, Richard Wagner`s RING CYCLE is the most daunting production an opera house can stage. Jon Else`s award-winning documentary SING FASTER chronicles the San Francisco Opera`s undertaking of the epic masterpiece from the unique perspective of the company`s unionized stagehands. Utilizing time-lapse photography, Else documents the stage crew`s efforts to bring the opera`s mythical world of Rhinemaidens and Valkyries to life while spending their backstage time playing poker, watching baseball, knitting sweaters, and balancing checkbooks. And as they move half-ton scenery through darkened intermissions or gingerly operate a huge mechanical dragon, their behind-the-scenes struggles uncannily echo the epic dramas playing out onstage--offering an apt meditation on the intersection of art and working life.
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