Ringheads in New York

Just had to pass on this perfect synopsis of Wagner's "Ring" -- showing again just how astute critic Justin Davidison is (from New York Magazine, his new home):

Here’s a timely operatic plot: When the mortgage on an oversize dream house proves unaffordable, the owner has no choice but to raise more cash by plundering little people, triggering a tsunami of greed that eventually results in global calamity. That synopsis, give or take a dozen subplots, helps explain why Richard Wagner’s fifteen-hour, four-part “Der Ring des Nibelungen” always feels current. Even with its cursed baubles, wrathful giants, and shape-shifting gods, Wagner’s “Ring” cycle remains a deeply modern work.

That was lol funny, but also quite cogent.

At the risk of looking really second rate next to that, I did want to re-post my experience with the same passionate "Ringheads" a few years ago at the Chicago Lyric Opera.