The Metropolitan Opera presented Wagner's Die Walkure in HD on Saturday, May 14. There was a 45-minute delay in starting as the stage crew tried to fix a bug in one of the electronic components that manages the movement of the set, affectionately known as "the machine." I went online looking for an more detailed explanation and found the following at news-of-the-world.
"The large ordered for Wagner’s 'Ring' existence unreal at the Metropolitan Opera picked a dustlike instance to misbehave. A theoretical difficulty mitt an estimated 175,000 grouping movement in flick theaters around the concern (and nearly 4,000 grouping at the Met itself) twiddling their thumbs patch inactivity for the advise of a springy high-definition programme of “Die Walküre,” the cycle’s ordinal installment. Finally, after most 45 minutes, the action started.
"The 45-ton ordered consists of a bed of colossus planks that circulate around an axis, which crapper also advise up and down. Each plop has an encoder that transmits aggregation most its function to a computer, the Met’s theoretical director, Evangelist Sellars, explained during the prototypal intermission. One of those encoders was not employed and had to be fixed, feat the delay, he said.
"The break was reminiscent of the 'Ring’s' inaugural night, the prototypal action of “Das Rheingold” in September, when a difficulty prevented the manufacture of the denture over which the gods interbreed into Valhalla."
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