5/11/2023 0 Comments Houston grand opera das rheingoldThe production is a disconcerting combination of cold metallic future and Neanderthal aesthetics – a startling pairing of humanity’s beginning and its end. In line with the heavy recollections of the first act, the indefatigable Barcelona-based theater company La Fura Dels Baus brings back many familiar production favorites here from Das Rheingold and Die Walküre. The third part of Houston Grand Opera’s Ring Cycle, which concludes a year from now, Siegfried is a co-production of Palau de des Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia, and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. About to fight a savage dragon in the depths of a forsaken wood, Siegfried calls out “Here, then, is where I learn fear?” But it’s not fear that’s the real question in the end – it’s what to call love. What do you call fear? It’s a question Wagner’s hero asks as he runs a gauntlet of perils with unshakable casualness in Siegfried.
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