I love how the dragon looks like an eldritch horror

@DAAspden

2 жыл бұрын

Eldritch - new word. Will have to look it up.

@moiraclegg3380

2 жыл бұрын

@@DAAspden It doesn't look like an eldritch horror. It's pretty feeble!

wonder how they did the dragon, i heard it was described as a living horror.

This is quite an impressive version of the dragon... though the fight is quite difficult to do in Opera. You can have people fighting but an actual dragon fighting a hero? It can play out as deliberately padded while the music builds up. Still, it's better than some dragons, playing it like an Eldritch monster.

@craigwalters

5 ай бұрын

Very difficult to stage without it coming across as silly

@MrThorfan64

5 ай бұрын

@craigwalters oh I agree. I've seen a lot of versions that look rather silly, Siegfried just standing there. Trying to actually do a dragon on stage is difficult. I recall that the Copenhagen version had Fafner like an evil Wizard of Oz, with Siegfried trying to fight his way through tentacles into a pit.

Der Drache...The Beast from Forbidden Planet /Little Shop of Horrors.....Glad Trash bag Mashup

Sorry, but how is that supposed to be a dragon? It looks more like something from H.P. Lovecraft’s reject bin.

@nathanschafer6420

3 жыл бұрын

You try being a stage director for something like this

@moiraclegg3380

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I am surprised that so far I've looked at several and haven't seen a terrific dragon yet! Need Hollywood!

It was a nebulous pile. More of a blob.

0:21

What's up with the drunken Kung Fu moves?

@DAAspden

Жыл бұрын

Yes, the music sounds like a proper fight. You can see the dragon recoiling and fighting, trying to get a proper strike into the darting hero but when you've got the lumpen reality... ...he moves as upon a doll and must pad it out. They should make a cartoon of it and project it on the stage at that moment.

@mikeobrien1559

Жыл бұрын

@@DAAspden Imagine how weird it would be with marionettes.🤢

@DAAspden

Жыл бұрын

@@mikeobrien1559 The String Ring?

@mikeobrien1559

Жыл бұрын

@@DAAspden 😻

@Blokewood3

Жыл бұрын

When it comes to actual fighting...this one is probably the best. Most other stage Fafners are barely able to move their limbs or take a blow, so there's just a lot of standing around or Siegfried cutting at air. I don't think Wagner gave much thought to how anyone was supposed to actually put this onstage when he wrote it.