The Colón Ring: Wagner in Buenos Aires | Documentary

It was an ambitious project: staging Richard Wagner’s powerful music drama, the Ring Cycle, in a single day. To honor Richard Wagner’s 200th birthday in 2012, Latin America’s famous opera house, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, hosted this one-of-a-kind production with abridged versions of the individual operas cut down to seven hours. The documentary film “The Colón Ring - Wagner in Buenos Aires,“ directed by Hans Christoph von Bock, follows each step of this challenging project. Those steps include consi