Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle(1999)

movie - first aired/released 1999-01-22 - 56 min - audience 7.0

Documentary

Directed by Jon Else

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.