The Sellars Ring

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Annals of American Wagneriana: Richard Lehnert sent me the program for Peter Sellars’s legendary, unrecorded one-evening version of the Ring. Lisa Hirsch was there: “The giants were macramé, and you could see them only from the hips down, hung from the flies on the proscenium stage. The galloping Valkyries were children’s hobby-horses, the magic provided by the best use of a disco ball I’ve ever seen in my life.” More memories of early Sellars are here.