Watch 30 minutes from Susan Froemke’s dramatic behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Metropolitan Opera’s new Ring cycle:
Tune-in for the complete documentary on Monday, September 10th at 9 p.m., and of course the entire Ring cycle, September 11 – 14 at 9 p.m. (check local listings)
Visit The Metropolitan Opera for more information on Wagner’s Dream and the new production of Wagner’s Ring cycle.
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Why do you prevent me from watching tonight’s perfornance of The Ring on KQED? You shunt me to your dreary antiques program.
Thank you.
Walter H. Drew
684 Benicia Drive, Apt. #58
Santa Rosa, CA 95409
(using Comcast service)
Hi Walter,
It appears that KQED is airing Wagner’s Ring on consecutive Sundays starting with this Sunday, September 16th at 12 p.m. Also, check your local KQED listings as it also appears that the cycle is airing this week on KQED plus.
Thank you for your support of GREAT PERFORMANCES and GP @ the Met.
I don’t work for PBS, but I’m also a Comcast customer. It’s on KQED+, not the regular KQED station. At least on my box, it’s just one channel up.
PBS TV in California treats opera so poorly in California. The “Ring” will be broadcast not as PBS or Wagner intended. Here in Los Angeles they will show it on 4 consecutive Sundays, and since I move out of the area on Saturday, I will miss the whole thing. And why would possibly contribute any money to PBS due to their lack of the regard for the classical arts?????
Many thanks to Idaho Public Television for five consecutive evenings of “The Ring,” starting with tonight’s excellent preview!
PBS in South Texas just decided not to show the first installment of the Ring Cycle. This is ridiculous. How do they expect to just completely skip it??? I am in disbelief.
I set my DVR on the 11th, my on screen guide says I recorded Das Rheingold, but it actually recorded the Documentary. I’m watching WGBH channel 2. was this a broadcast error?
Die Walkure astonishing, brilliant, beyond this mortal world, nothing in the opera world can compare to the ride of the Valkuries, Woton tireless, always totally riveting, seeming a god himself, to perform that, picking his perfect pitches out of the air. Seigmund singing inside the notes without any sense of disturbance as he moves effortlessly with the line, drawing it finer than fine. The most lush tones of love one can imagine, I can’t stop praising all of it. Thank you, PBS
Wagner got replaced by Lawrence Welk, or some such drivel, here in Grand Rapids, Mi. So we had to see the first 3 evenings on MhZ and then it was dropped. So didn’t get to see Siegfried last night. Sigh….We miss NYC.
I tried to watch it all last time 22 years ago. Thanks for a 2 nd chance.
This kind of thing is why PBS needs to be a national channel. Local PBS stations are taking Federal dollars and doing whatever the heck they want with them. Showing you Lawrence Welk or something instead of what the rest of the country – or at least New York & Washington, DC and Boston – gets to see. Most PBS stations now have two digital channels – they need to be REQUIRED to leave one channel on the national schedule and leave the other one for local content. Then you wouldn’t have all this mess of different shows on different schedules.
Running the feed at 9pm Eastern time was OK for western viewers, but we eastern ones were ready for bed by the end of the first act [of ANY of the operas]. If the reasoning is that everyone will record it and watch when they please, why bother at all? Just borrow the DVD from the library.
Regarding the video; Weren’t the editions shown this week quite different from what we saw in movie theaters over the past couple years? It seems to me that the extreme closeups of the singers and the moving camera work and extreme camera angles (all features that I dislike very much in these videos) were much more frequent than we saw during the live broadcasts.
It would be nice if the series get rebroadcast. Each opera is long and intense. We recorded them but couldn’t keep them all because of the size of the hard drive. I wish I would be able to catch the parts that we hadn’t recorded and watched.
A new Wagner fan was born. Unfortunately was not able to watch all of the broadcasts, may have to buy the dvd set some day. Just wonderful. I hope they will rebroadcast (again).
Will pbs broadcast Gotterdammerung again? or for that matter, repeat the entire ring cycle?
Thanks,
Josef
Hi Josef,
As the Ring cycle aired relatively recently in mid-September, chances are it won’t be re-aired very soon. You should contact your local PBS affiliate to see if they plan on airing any of the Ring operas at a later date. As you are aware, these operas are very long – and amazing, but they are difficult to schedule in any time frame much less a prime-time repeat.
Thank you for your question,
GP Team