Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle (1999)
56m
Running Time
January 22, 1999Release Date
Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle (1999)
56m
Running Time
January 22, 1999Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
With its four operas, seventeen-hour running time and months of rehearsal, Wagner's "Ring Cycle" is a daunting undertaking for any opera company. Jon Else goes backstage to show this rare event entirely from the point of view of union stagehands at the San Francisco Opera.
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Cast & Crew.
Kenneth 'Spike' Kirkland
Self
Jon Else
Director of Photography / Writer / Director / Producer
Michael Chin
Director of Photography
Mark Becker
Production Assistant
Lillian Benson
Additional Editor
Marcarena Hernandez
Production Assistant
Jon Halperin
Production Assistant
Jay Boekelheide
Editor / Sound Designer
Rueben Goldberg
Additional Production Assistant
David Davis
Executive Producer
Deborah Hoffmann
Editor
Cort Worthington
Production Assistant
Todd Leong
Production Assistant
Robin Chin
Additional Editor
Inez Robinson
Additional Production Assistant
Andy Gilbert
Production Assistant
Jazib Hasan
Production Assistant
Stephen Longstreth
Additional Production Assistant
Steve Wessells
Production Assistant
Philippe Roques
Additional Editor
Kecia Benvenuto
Production Assistant
Lori Shinseki
Additional Editor
Doug Dunderdale
Additional Production Assistant
Megan Mylan
Production Assistant
Details.
Release DateJanuary 22, 1999
StatusReleased
Running Time56m
Filming LocationsSan Francisco Opera, United States of America
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
opera
behind the scenes
theatre performance
Wiki.
Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle is a 1999 documentary film directed by Jon H. Else, that explores the work β and leisure activities β of a crew of stagehands at the San Francisco Opera, as they prepare and rehearse for a production of Richard Wagner's complete Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle). The cycle, a set of four operas with a combined performance time of seventeen hours, is regarded as the most ambitious production an opera company can mount. The film was distributed by the American Public Broadcast Service as part of its Independent Lens series.