With four operas melded into one production, it only makes sense that we need more time to mount The Ring. For a reference point, we will use numbers from a standard opera in repertoire, and one that many of you may have enjoyed in May at Seattle Opera, The Marriage of Figaro. So, let’s look at some of the cold hard facts that add up to make your four-day aesthetic experience at the theatre so magnificent and so exceptional.
The production department has already been hard at work for months to coordinate these elements. When The Ring Cycle at Seattle Opera comes around every few years, the size of that support grows to be bigger than ever, from the number of staff, to the amount of rehearsals, to everything that goes into the final onstage product. For any theatrical production, audiences gather to enjoy the performers and spectacle onstage, blissfully unaware of the flurry of activity that goes on behind the scenes – comparable to that huge part of an iceberg that floats unseen underwater, supporting what’s visible at the top.
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