Valhalla will still fall in the finale of the Staatsoper’s Ring tonight (probably in a video projection), but without me. I was looking forward to some of the orchestral and vocal bits. Dramatically speaking I feel no regrets about jumping ship, or even much curiosity about how it turns out. But I am still a little curious. If you went, please share your thoughts below.
As for my absence, I am otherwise engaged. Some more on this later, though only such that can be fairly written of dress rehearsals. Did you know you can get to Salzburg, see an opera, and return to Vienna in roughly the same amount of time it takes to wait for and occupy a good standing room spot for Götterdämmerung? OK, you get home an hour or so later but you were in Salzburg (approx. 317 kilometers from Vienna).
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I'm actually skipping Götterdämmerung too – I have so much to do before next week and don't want to miss extended work opening hours today. Ditto general lack of curiosity as well, though ausschlaggebend was the Brünnhilde upgrade we're getting in November.
Also a conductor upgrade. Even if you don't like Thielemann, he's no routiner. I'll just get whoever substitutes for Levine next spring.