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Is a San Francisco Opera premiere. From a conceptual point of view, it summarizes Francesca Zambello 's vision while at the same time proposing further ideas. The prologue, featuring the Norns weaving the rope of Destiny until it unexpectedly breaks, was one of the most effective scenes of the whole Ring: a scrim emphasised the distance between stage and audience; on it, green and black shapes of an electrical circuit materialized as the Norns were weaving. The translation in the supertitles reinforced the electronic imagery – "das Seil" (the rope) was translated as "the cable(s)." Dressed as peculiar surgeons/smiths/lab technicians, with green gowns and black aprons, the Norns handled a large black cable that burst with a sparkle as it broke in their hands. The pile of cables accumulated by the Norns and the intricate patterns of straight black wires in the background produced an interesting contrast: the confusion of these elements clashed with the ordered circuits, thus highlighting the attempts to keep Destiny clean and rational versus the chaos of the actual events.

Black and white tones pervaded the digital projections accompanying scene changes. In the passage from the Prologue to act I, images of a grim and polluted landscape and power plants invaded the screen. Toxic drain waters appeared as the Rheingold motif surfaced from the orchestral texture. From the huge transparent wall that is part of the staging, we saw the hall of the Gibichungs located in such a devastated environment – we were lead to think that the Gibichungs participate in causing such a natural disaster. White and silver minimal furniture and glass and chrome details in the architecture conferred the space a modernist, almost fascist, flair. This particular nuance was emphasised by the setting of the last scene of act II, which defined the space by imposing big-scale elements – a wide staircase leading to a huge platform – populated by the chorus members dressed and acting as members of a military corps.

The depiction of such places was very effective: they conveyed the sense of a claustrophobic world, that was imploding because of the greed and carelessness of the people inhabiting it. Yet, there is a downside: as customary in this production, these ideas were flooded by additional, almost never-ending concepts, that, in my opinion, though displayed in the setting and costumes, were not sufficiently elaborated.

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