Product Details

• Actors: Pierre Boulez, Gwyneth Jones, Bayreuth Opera, Donald McIntyre, Manfred Jung
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: Unknown (DTS 5.1), Unknown (PCM Stereo)
• Subtitles: German, English, Spanish, French
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
• DVD Release Date: August 9, 2005
• Run Time: 56 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00094OB34
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,005 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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MAKING OF THE RING - DVD Movie

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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Worth buying, but only if you already have the earlier release of the Boulez ring, October 14, 2005

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Doug Urquhart (Southport, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wagner - The Making of Der Ring Des Nibelungen / Patrice Chereau (DVD)

The documentary on this DVD is included as one of the extras on the new Deutsche Grammophon release of the Boulez Ring. If you already have this version of the Ring, don't bother to buy "The making of...".
I have the earlier release from Philips, which doesn't include the documentary, so I felt it might be worth buying this DVD, if only for completeness. It was worth the money, but...
If you're expecting a documentary of the same calibre as 'The Golden Ring', you will be disappointed. Quite frankly, it's a bit of a pot-boiler; there isn't much about the actual performance - most of the film is a potted history of Bayreuth, including the near-obligatory scenes of Winifred and the Nazis, overlaid with an appalling oompa-band arrangement of Siegfried. If you're a keen Wagnerian, you'll know this stuff already; if you are not, you won't be interested in this DVD.
On the other hand, there are sound bytes from the performers, shots of Boulez and Chereau, some stock footage of Wieland and Wolfgang that I've never seen before (and the price is less than a reasonable bottle of Riesling), so.... why not.

5.0 out of 5 stars The "Ring" of the century - still the master of all tlevised "rings", August 10, 2011

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F. Schellen "Nando Schellen" (flagstaff, arizona United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wagner - The Making of Der Ring Des Nibelungen / Patrice Chereau (DVD)

Wolfgang Wagner, the late director of the Bayreuth Festival made the best choice of his long career when he invited conductor Pierre Boulez and then young director Patrice Chéreau to produce a new production of Wagner's "Ring' in 1976, one hundred years after the birth of this unique master piece. Boulez and Chéreau constructed a completely new concept of the piece in which human characters and growth of mankind, critically viewed by Wagner on how civilization had not succeeded to make mankind any better, gave a merciless, part tragic, part very humorous, portrait in which the spectators could recognize themselves. the first year, 1976 drew negative reactions from the usually very conservative Bayreuth audiences but soon after that it became the absolute hit of the century. The film on "The making of the Ring' is an unforgettable document on how this historic event in Bayreuth became a milestone in opera and TV history.This film is a must if you have the complete ring on DVD and if not, you must immediately buy it!

Nando Schellen - Opera Stage Director
(Former collaborator of the Bayreuth Festival 1979-1982)