--- product_id: 10487880 title: "Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen" price: "SAR 1524" currency: SAR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/10487880-wagner-der-ring-des-nibelungen store_origin: SA region: Saudi Arabia --- # Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen **Price:** SAR 1524 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen - **How much does it cost?** SAR 1524 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.sa](https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/10487880-wagner-der-ring-des-nibelungen) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen Das Rheingold · Die Walküre · Siegfried · Götterdämmerung & Wagner's Dream - The making of the Ring Starring in alphabetical order: Patricia Bardon · Stephanie Blythe · Richard Croft · Mojca Erdmann · Wendy Bryn Harmer Jonas Kaufmann · Hans-Peter König · Waltraud Meier · Jay Hunter Morris · Eric Owens Iain Peterson · Franz-Josef Selig · Gerhard Siegel · Bryn Terfel · Deborah Voigt Eva-Maria Westbroek - The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus James Levine · Fabio Luisi Directed by Robert Lepage Also included is Wagner's Dream, a frank and revealing documentary about the five-year making of the Met's new Ring that has already been acclaimed as "simply the best documentary about the Met ever made" (Film Journal), "a must-see for any creative soul" (Cinespect) and "destined to be one of the classic documentaries about opera". The most famous, the most performed, the most thrilling, and the most recorded opera cycle in music history. A unique and exclusive package, on multi-Blu-Ray set, of the most successful Ring Cycle production of the 21th century. Filmed at the world-famous Metropolitan Opera House in New York, in high definition the award winning Robert Lepage production. Featuring Bryn Terfel as Wotan universally recognized as the finest Bass-Baritone and Wotan of his generation. Also starring Deborah Voigt as Brunnhilde, and Star Tenor Jonas Kaufmann as Siegmund. The ultimate product to launch Universal Classics significant and substantial celebration of the Wagner Anniversary Year (1813 to 2013). This award-winning and ground-breaking production has been seen by over 150,000 people at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and subsequently by a remarkable 800,000 people in cinemas and movie-theatres around the globe. Screenings have taken place in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, The UK and the US. Features some of the most remarkable and memorable music of all time including The Ride of the Valkyries and Siegfrieds Funeral March, as heard in countless Hollywood blockbusters and global TV commercials over the last forty years. This is The Lord Of the Rings of the classical music world action-packed, a unique story steeped in mystery, intrigue, death, heart-break and heroism. To coincide with this release, we are planning a 2 CD set and download Ring-Hits-package featuring of course the stars of this production: Bryn Terfel, Deborah Voigt and Jonas Kaufmann. Review: Spectacular achievement - I first saw parts of this on PBS Live from the Met back in 2011. Then I bought the blu-ray set, and promptly forgot it! Then I bought a pair of Bowers and Wilkin P7 Bluetooth, noise canceling headphones and decided to try them out on the Ring Cycle. I am glad I did. Spectacular sound. On to the production. The design of this production was simultaneously extremely simple and extraordinarily complex. The planning of it reminded me of America's decision to go to the moon in 1962. Everything had to be designed and invented along the way. It seems just as complex. Robert Lepage and his company had just three years to complete their mission instead of NASA's seven. So the machine itself. Yes amazing with all the articulations. Then the visuals, the projected images so imaginative and so appropriate. The forest bird, so beautiful, and how they tracked the singer's voice to the location of the bird and the moving of the birds lips! And the cast - stellar throughout. I'll start with the forest bird, Mojca Erdmann - beautiful and lovely with great voice, as was Tamara Mumford, Flosshilde, the Rhinemaiden. Jonas Kaufman and Eva-Maria Westbroek were terrific as Siegmund and Sieglinde. Eric Owens likewise terrific as Alberich, from his beginning lustful scoundrel, to the demon of power, to the old man lingering in past hopes. Hans-Peter Konig fabulous throughout as Fafner, Hunding and Hagen. Jay Hunter Morris was an excellent Siegried, especially filling in at the last moment when the original singer got ill, and ESPECIALLY because he has to play a character who is known for two things both of them inseparably connected, his absolute fearlessness, and his STUPIDITY. Oy, what a dunce. However, in has last moments of life in Gotterdamerung, he recovers his memory and in moments of supreme tenderness, his voice changes as he appears to acquire intelligence for the first time. But the real stars are Bryn Terfel as Wotan and Deborah Voigt as Brunnhilde, especially Deborah Voigt. In many ways, the Ring cycle is about Brunnhilde. Alberich and Wotan set it in motion, but it is Brunnhilde who carries it through to the end. When Debbie and Bryn are together, it is true musical theater dynamite. Their duets in Walkure are matchless. I believe it was Rossini who said, "Wagner's music has beautiful moments and awful quarter hours." This may be true of Siegfried, especially the first hour with grating Mime and stupid Siegfried. There are moments that drag in Gotterdammerung and Rheingold, but not many. Most of it is compelling. Walkure was the big surprise for me, absolutely compelling from beginning to end. No drag at all. The box set has an extra DVD, an almost two hour documentary titled, "Wagner's Dream." It not only documents the making of this production, but also how religiously they tried to conform to Wagner's original conception, one that with the technology of his time, he could not come close to. He died a year after the first production. Particularly amusing in the documentary is seeing all the passionate "Wagnerians" the die-hard fans who seek out each production and are ready to blast it for being awful, seeing all of their devastating criticism and then watching them come around to absolute praise by the time of Gotterdammerung. Human nature - but that's what it's about, isn't it? Review: Technology catches up with The Vision - Finally, Wagners' epic vision can be realized, maybe for the first time, on an imaginary scale equal to the music. Now, I know that RW himself wanted his opera produced a certain, specific (read as very, very Traditional) way. Cosima enforced this during her reign as director for the rest of her very long life. If you like that presentation, you got that other Met production thats as good as the traditional style will get. IMO opera wont survive w/o something new and fresh, it really needs to be re-interpreted with each new generation. This version is pretty spectacular. Others have used projection technology, but this has "The Machine." This has the added advantage of a 3-dimensional space that the projection can be shot on. So, in Seigfried, you have a beautiful forest scene that the actors can walk across, while the computer technology rustles the leaves underfoot. Then the Machine can change postion to a wholly vertical screen if necessary. Then, take a look at the amazing journey to Nibelheim, the Machine is twisted as Wotan and Loge "walk" on suspened wires across to the depths of the netherworld. The climax to Das Rheingold is... wow. As the Gods ascend up the Rainbow Bridge (here a beautiful glimmering computer generated and projected rainbow), the Machine then tilts down on both sides until it is completely vertical, and a full Starfield is seen. Wow. This reminded me of that scene in Immortal Beloved. Oh, the opening with the undulating wave effect and the Rhinemaidens suspended in midair, bubbles coming out of their mouths while they sing. The technology is finally here, and vision has equalled vision. So many great moments (and many "dull 1/4 hours"). One final note, a slightly negative one, and this is regarding the actual libretto. Dare I criticize Wagner himself? Why not... the Ring is way, way, much too repetitive in it's storytelling. You hear the same freaking subplots told about 20 times over and over and over by seemingly every possible character. It got on my nerves about the 15th time I heard how Wotan could not steal the ring himself so he had to have Seigfried do it for him. I mean, I've heard this already. Once, maybe twice... but 20? I dont need that. And this true of every single subplot. 7 times you hear how Seigfried had no fear and killed the dragon and through the blood can understand birds. I dont need to hear this told 7 times. Ok, Ive beaten this point enough... Lol. Awesome music, awesome production, all on Blu Ray delivered to your door .....we live in great times my friends. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Contributor | Robert Lepage, The Metropolitan Opera | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 396 Reviews | | Format | Box set, Classical, Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC | | Genre | Classical / Symphonies, Music Video & Concerts, jazz-music | | Language | German | | Number Of Discs | 8 | ## Product Details - **Contributor:** Robert Lepage, The Metropolitan Opera - **Format:** Box set, Classical, Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC - **Genre:** Classical / Symphonies, Music Video & Concerts, jazz-music - **Language:** German - **Number Of Discs:** 8 ## Images ![Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81Pzkr75tvL.jpg) ![Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81sEaqD+7JL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spectacular achievement *by M***M on November 30, 2020* I first saw parts of this on PBS Live from the Met back in 2011. Then I bought the blu-ray set, and promptly forgot it! Then I bought a pair of Bowers and Wilkin P7 Bluetooth, noise canceling headphones and decided to try them out on the Ring Cycle. I am glad I did. Spectacular sound. On to the production. The design of this production was simultaneously extremely simple and extraordinarily complex. The planning of it reminded me of America's decision to go to the moon in 1962. Everything had to be designed and invented along the way. It seems just as complex. Robert Lepage and his company had just three years to complete their mission instead of NASA's seven. So the machine itself. Yes amazing with all the articulations. Then the visuals, the projected images so imaginative and so appropriate. The forest bird, so beautiful, and how they tracked the singer's voice to the location of the bird and the moving of the birds lips! And the cast - stellar throughout. I'll start with the forest bird, Mojca Erdmann - beautiful and lovely with great voice, as was Tamara Mumford, Flosshilde, the Rhinemaiden. Jonas Kaufman and Eva-Maria Westbroek were terrific as Siegmund and Sieglinde. Eric Owens likewise terrific as Alberich, from his beginning lustful scoundrel, to the demon of power, to the old man lingering in past hopes. Hans-Peter Konig fabulous throughout as Fafner, Hunding and Hagen. Jay Hunter Morris was an excellent Siegried, especially filling in at the last moment when the original singer got ill, and ESPECIALLY because he has to play a character who is known for two things both of them inseparably connected, his absolute fearlessness, and his STUPIDITY. Oy, what a dunce. However, in has last moments of life in Gotterdamerung, he recovers his memory and in moments of supreme tenderness, his voice changes as he appears to acquire intelligence for the first time. But the real stars are Bryn Terfel as Wotan and Deborah Voigt as Brunnhilde, especially Deborah Voigt. In many ways, the Ring cycle is about Brunnhilde. Alberich and Wotan set it in motion, but it is Brunnhilde who carries it through to the end. When Debbie and Bryn are together, it is true musical theater dynamite. Their duets in Walkure are matchless. I believe it was Rossini who said, "Wagner's music has beautiful moments and awful quarter hours." This may be true of Siegfried, especially the first hour with grating Mime and stupid Siegfried. There are moments that drag in Gotterdammerung and Rheingold, but not many. Most of it is compelling. Walkure was the big surprise for me, absolutely compelling from beginning to end. No drag at all. The box set has an extra DVD, an almost two hour documentary titled, "Wagner's Dream." It not only documents the making of this production, but also how religiously they tried to conform to Wagner's original conception, one that with the technology of his time, he could not come close to. He died a year after the first production. Particularly amusing in the documentary is seeing all the passionate "Wagnerians" the die-hard fans who seek out each production and are ready to blast it for being awful, seeing all of their devastating criticism and then watching them come around to absolute praise by the time of Gotterdammerung. Human nature - but that's what it's about, isn't it? ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Technology catches up with The Vision *by T***. on July 16, 2013* Finally, Wagners' epic vision can be realized, maybe for the first time, on an imaginary scale equal to the music. Now, I know that RW himself wanted his opera produced a certain, specific (read as very, very Traditional) way. Cosima enforced this during her reign as director for the rest of her very long life. If you like that presentation, you got that other Met production thats as good as the traditional style will get. IMO opera wont survive w/o something new and fresh, it really needs to be re-interpreted with each new generation. This version is pretty spectacular. Others have used projection technology, but this has "The Machine." This has the added advantage of a 3-dimensional space that the projection can be shot on. So, in Seigfried, you have a beautiful forest scene that the actors can walk across, while the computer technology rustles the leaves underfoot. Then the Machine can change postion to a wholly vertical screen if necessary. Then, take a look at the amazing journey to Nibelheim, the Machine is twisted as Wotan and Loge "walk" on suspened wires across to the depths of the netherworld. The climax to Das Rheingold is... wow. As the Gods ascend up the Rainbow Bridge (here a beautiful glimmering computer generated and projected rainbow), the Machine then tilts down on both sides until it is completely vertical, and a full Starfield is seen. Wow. This reminded me of that scene in Immortal Beloved. Oh, the opening with the undulating wave effect and the Rhinemaidens suspended in midair, bubbles coming out of their mouths while they sing. The technology is finally here, and vision has equalled vision. So many great moments (and many "dull 1/4 hours"). One final note, a slightly negative one, and this is regarding the actual libretto. Dare I criticize Wagner himself? Why not... the Ring is way, way, much too repetitive in it's storytelling. You hear the same freaking subplots told about 20 times over and over and over by seemingly every possible character. It got on my nerves about the 15th time I heard how Wotan could not steal the ring himself so he had to have Seigfried do it for him. I mean, I've heard this already. Once, maybe twice... but 20? I dont need that. And this true of every single subplot. 7 times you hear how Seigfried had no fear and killed the dragon and through the blood can understand birds. I dont need to hear this told 7 times. Ok, Ive beaten this point enough... Lol. Awesome music, awesome production, all on Blu Ray delivered to your door .....we live in great times my friends. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wagner’s “Der Ring Des Nibelungen”: At the Met, on PBS, and in This Box Set : An ‘Immortal’ Experience! *by S***I on February 27, 2018* After watching Wagner’s “Ring” in early September, 2012 on PBS for 4 consecutive nights, I felt like I had self-immolated at the end! What an immensely gut-wrenching final scene! It took me a week to decompress. It wasn’t that I was just being introduced to Wagner for the first time; I had studied his work in Music Composition class at university (both the musical scores; the stories built on old legends, going back to the times of the Gods, creating half-men/ half-gods; discussing main themes like ‘immortality’; all within the context of old German legends). Besides this, I come from a strand of German lineage (I was born into a family with the name of one of the characters in this group of operas), so studying and performing music from my original ‘homeland’ drew me in like a duck to water. This “Ring” set is comprised of 4 operas: ‘Das Reingold’, ‘Die Walkure’, ‘Siegfried’, and ‘Gotterdammerung’. The 4 operas recorded from this set were first performed and filmed live at The Metropolitan Opera Company in New York in 2011. They were then broadcast on PBS in early September, 2012. This box set not only contains BluRays of performances of the 4 operas; it also contains a 5th one – dealing with LePage’s ‘mobile’/ IT-enhanced stage and how it worked, to perfectly integrate into scenery that was so vivid that it looked almost out of this world. I don’t think that I can ever see another opera again that isn’t performed with LePage’s ‘plank’ (lever-like) set, which is built and operated by LePage’s Canadian company, creating a wonderful collaboration between companies for the sake of art. The operas had 2 different conductors: James Levine and then Fabio Luisi, who had to take over because of Levine’s health problems. At the last moment, Texan Jay Hunter Morris also had to take over the entire role of Siegfried. The understudy of the sick original cast member was too afraid to take on this huge role and didn’t want to damage his reputation, but Morris (3rd in line) stepped right up to the plate. He was absolutely riveting in his vocal timbre and performance. He performed in a state of being ‘in the zone’, and everyone watching and listening felt this, too. This role/ performance propelled him into international stardom. What a joy that this box set captures this. Internationally acclaimed soprano Deborah Voigt in the role of Brunnhilde had just lost over 100 pounds before she took this role. The plank set had her exercising while working in these operas! She looked and sounded magnificent. The other operatic singers also shined. Run an internet search for the Metropolitan Opera and look for short video clips of these 4 operas, rehearsals, outtakes, and the behind-the-scenes happenings of LePage’s plank set. Especially look for ‘The Ride of the Valkyries’, which will be the finest rendition of this that you have ever seen! This will whet your appetite for purchasing this amazing boxed set. The entire 5 disc BluRay set is manufactured by Deutsch Grammophone (there are subtitles in English, French, Spanish, and Chinese, so that listeners/ viewers understand the context of the story in a language that they can comprehend [all of the operas are sung in German]). The video is shot in HD, and there is a total of 1111 minutes (18 hours and 51.6 Minutes) in the 5 discs. Broken down into sections: the 4 operas contain 920 minutes (15.33 hours); the 5th disc, called ‘Wagner’s Dream’, dealing with the making of the ‘Ring’ opera, is 114 minutes (1.9 hours). A final 72 minutes (1.28 hours) is devoted to extras. (Note: One of my friends bought this box set for her family one Christmas, because funnily enough, she, too, comes from a German lineage, and her maiden name is also a part of “The Ring”! She bought this set so that her kids could learn more about their German heritage.) This “Ring” box set should be part of every music and opera-lover’s collection. People who are just being introduced to opera (including children and teens and adults who aren’t yet fans) will find this rendition with the plank sets very believable and enjoyable to watch. This is the finest opera video set that I own, and I am very happy that I bought it. 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