Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle
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Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle
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With its four operas, seventeen-hour running time and months of rehearsal, Wagner's "Ring Cycle" is a daunting undertaking for any opera company. Jon Else goes backstage to show this rare event entirely from the point of view of union stagehands at the San Francisco Opera.
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1999-01-22
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Infidelity, Lies, Betrayal. And that's just what's happening on stage.
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