Wagner: Der Ring Des Niblungen - Gotterdammerung: Boulez/Chereau

This edition has the movie spanning two discs, but will be shipped together and treated as only one title on your ZipList.

In 1976 French director Patrice Chéreau's centenary staging of Wagner's Ring cycle unleashed the greatest scandal in Bayreuth Festival history, but by the end of its last performance in 1980, this epoch-making production was acclaimed with an hour and a half of thunderous applause. "Götterdämmerung presents a world in which no values exist any more. The only refuge is in the past" (Chéreau). "The videotaped Bayreuth Ring succeeds triumphantly" (Time