Boulez lightened and clarified the orchestral texture so radically that the orchestra members formally protested. Chereau updated the action to Wagner's lifetime and later, interpreting the cycle as a critique of the 19th century. The 1976 production (filmed with the same performers in a 1980 revival) is the pinnacle of their experimentation. Winifred hated the changes they introduced but concluded it was 'better to be furious than to be bored.' After World War II, the next generation, Wolfgang and Wieland Wagner, began to experiment with avant-garde staging. He visited Bayreuth frequently and is shown basking in the admiration of ecstatic throngs. The sacred flame was passed on to Winifred, wife of Wagner's son Siegfried and a close friend of Adolf Hitler. Wagner's widow, Cosima, took the role of keeper of the sacred flame, and preserved 19th-century performance practices into the 1930s, when they were hopelessly obsolete. It includes some recordings and film clips that will interest devotees of performance history and interviews with the artists behind the spectacular success (after early controversy) of the 1976 centennial production: director Patrice Chereau, conductor Pierre Boulez, and television director Brian Large. This documentary, originally made for television, not only chronicles the making of the brilliant, controversial centennial production of Wagner's Ring Cycle at Bayreuth it also looks at the history of Bayreuth Ring productions and the history of the Wagner family, preserver and modifier of his performing tradition.

Subtitles: German, English, Spanish, French Wagner - The Making of Der Ring Des Nibelungen (2005) Īctors: Pierre Boulez, Gwyneth Jones, Bayreuth Opera, Donald McIntyre, Manfred Jungįormat: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC

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