Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle - Musicals & The Arts Classic Movies on DVD (1999) Directed by Jon Else; A&E / Docurama Films : OLDIES.com

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DVD Features:

Encoding: Region 1; USA & Canada
Package Type: Keep Case
Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33

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Dolby Digital Stereo - English

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Biography - 1. Jon Else - Director

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With its massive set designs and 17-hour running time, Richard Wagner's RING CYCLE is the most daunting production an opera house can stage. Jon Else's award-winning documentary SING FASTER chronicles the San Francisco Opera's undertaking of the epic masterpiece from the unique perspective of the company's unionized stagehands. Utilizing time-lapse photography, Else documents the stage crew's efforts to bring the opera's mythical world of Rhinemaidens and Valkyries to life while spending their backstage time playing poker, watching baseball, knitting sweaters, and balancing checkbooks. And as they move half-ton scenery through darkened intermissions or gingerly operate a huge mechanical dragon, the stagehands' behind-the-scenes struggles uncannily echo the epic dramas playing out onstage--offering an apt meditation on the intersection of art and working life.

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Directed by		Jon Else
Produced by		Jon Else
Edited by		Deborah Hoffman & Jay Boekelheide
Director of Photography		Jon Else & Michael Chin

DVD Details:

Label: A&E / Docurama Films
Originally Released in: 1999
Number of Discs: 1
Rated: Not Rated
Run Time: 56 minutes
Video: Color
Region: Region 1 encoding; USA & Canada.
Release Date: June 29, 2004
OLDIES.com Sales Rank: 60,449
ISBN: 0767059468
Item UPC: 767685957332
Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx); Counts as 1 item(s) for International Shipping.

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Sing Faster

The Stagehands' Ring Cycle