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'Invisible Siegfrieds' march as part of Ring Festival
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'Invisible Siegfrieds' march as part of Ring Festival
'Invisible Siegfrieds' march as part of Ring Festival
This summer, the L.A. Opera will stage the first complete performance of Richard Wagner’s four-part Ring Cycle in Los Angeles. The city is marking the presentation with the Ring Festival. Georg Nussbaumer is an Austrian composer whose contribution to the Ring Festival is a project called Invisible Siegfried.
For the past several days, Georg Nussbaumer has led evening marchers along Sunset Boulevard toward the Pacific Ocean. They wear camouflage helmets, a nod to a prop in the Ring Cycle, and they're led by an opera singer covered in blankets and wheeled in a cart. She represents Brunnhilde, the leader of the Valkyries. Georg Nussbaumer spoke with KPCC's Alex Cohen about the Invisible Siegfrieds project, which is hosted by Villa Aurora.
(Audio: KPCC's Alex Cohen spoke with Georg Nussbaumer about the project and the reaction it's generated)
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