On stage
Friday we rehearsed Die Götterdämmerung on stage for the first time, which was very satisfying. The stage set looks promising and the choir is excellent. The male voice choir plays a big part and is expanded with 20 men in Die Götterdämmerung. It’s important for me that their characters brutality and coarseness is clearly apparent from the moment they enter the stage. Day by day we’re getting closer to this rough expression.
I love to work together with a choir again, but I also find it difficult to accommodate the choir into “The Ring” aesthetically, since there’s no choir in the rest of the operas. After a few days spend worrying if it is too “opera-like” in a bad way, I now believe that it is actually elevating the performance.
The singers are advancing every day and we’re on schedule. We got the time we need – neither more nor less.
I’ve struggled a lot with the 3rd act, where Siegfried meets the rhinemaidens. In this naturalistic production the rhinemaidens have grown old, naturally. These three old coquettish women are very funny, but they also make the scene appear a bit harmless and less exciting. But Stig, who’s playing Siegfried, helped me analyzing why the scene was so harmless and together we got the idea to turn the whole scene into a dream of his.
The scene is taking place in the ruins of the reservoir where the first scene of Das Rheingold was taking place. Here Siegfried fall asleep and the three rhinemaidens appear in his dream, old and seductive at the same time. At first they’re trying to tempt him and then they threaten him. Their message is that the ring will be the cause of Siegfried’s dead. His dream turns into a nightmare – a scene of madness. And suddenly this scene became fantastic relevant and exiting. We still have to work on it, but now we’ve solved the main problem.
I love to work together with a choir again, but I also find it difficult to accommodate the choir into “The Ring” aesthetically, since there’s no choir in the rest of the operas. After a few days spend worrying if it is too “opera-like” in a bad way, I now believe that it is actually elevating the performance.
The singers are advancing every day and we’re on schedule. We got the time we need – neither more nor less.
I’ve struggled a lot with the 3rd act, where Siegfried meets the rhinemaidens. In this naturalistic production the rhinemaidens have grown old, naturally. These three old coquettish women are very funny, but they also make the scene appear a bit harmless and less exciting. But Stig, who’s playing Siegfried, helped me analyzing why the scene was so harmless and together we got the idea to turn the whole scene into a dream of his. 
The scene is taking place in the ruins of the reservoir where the first scene of Das Rheingold was taking place. Here Siegfried fall asleep and the three rhinemaidens appear in his dream, old and seductive at the same time. At first they’re trying to tempt him and then they threaten him. Their message is that the ring will be the cause of Siegfried’s dead. His dream turns into a nightmare – a scene of madness. And suddenly this scene became fantastic relevant and exiting. We still have to work on it, but now we’ve solved the main problem.
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