Backstage with Barenboim at the Proms Ring

The German TV channel RBB trailed Daniel Barenboim and his Staatskapelle Berlin all the way from Tegel airport to the Royal Albert Hall. The resulting documentary offers an intriguing glimpse of what went into producing the Proms Ring cycle - plus a sugar-coated view of London. Mostly in German, but don't let that put you off.

If you can't see it below, try RBB's website. May take a while to load.

Comments

[Weejohnnie]

It is surely criminal that the BBC chose not to film the Barenboim Ring performance

[Susannah]

Thank you so much for posting this.

[ernestlow]

What a shame that it was not filmed! Millions all over the world who could not make it to London are mourning ..

[SJT]

They couldn't film it due to copyright restrictions imposed by, I think, Arthaus, who have filmed the whole thing on stage in Berlin, which will doubtless have a commercial release at some point soon

[SJT]

The filmette doesn't credit either a writer or narrator other than "a film by (the aptly-named) Herr Titze, but whoever it was doesn't know the difference in Gotterdamerung between the Norns at the start of the Prologue, of whom he takes the trouble to explain their job description to us, whilst we alas are actually watching and listening to the Rhinemaidens at the start of Act III instead.

That's what I'd call "Dreifach herumgefickt"

Now, what is the German for "Crikey!", I wonder?

[Gilberto]

Thanks Intermezzo: a nice souvenir of a fantastic Ring.

[Hariclea]

i noticed that too :-) but then a well known German newspaper singing praises to the same Ring mentioned it included in the cast the wonderful tenor Bryn Terfel as Wotan :-) So much for knowing their Wagner ;-))) http://www.focus.de/kultur/kunst/musik-barenboim-und-staatskapelle-berlin-in-london-gefeiert_aid_1052859.html

still a nice little souvenir from what was a truly special Ring :-)

[Ruth]

They didn't have Nina Stemme in Berlin, did they?