Siegfried is not the best of operas to get introduced to the medium with. It’s the least user friendly of the four Ring operas. Try Carmen or La Traviata.
“Siegfried is not the best of operas to get introduced to the medium with.”
I concur, its like asking someone who’s never watched baseball to watch and appreciate a bona-fide pitcher’s duel - one of them throwing a no hitter.
Nevertheless, my kids and I sat through all 15+ hours of the Met’s Ring presentation. I had to explain to them that the plotline moves slowly in movies too, but that movies fill the extra time with sub-plots and special effects, etc. In opera, the extra time is filled with great music and performances. Once they got that, they really started enjoying it. By the last night, they were the ones firing up the TV and enthusiastically rounding up Mom and Dad to watch the last 5 hours of Wagner!
Or Madame Butterfly or La Boheme, or even Turandot.
Oh, that was one of the Ring operas? Didn’t know. Just saw it on the TV and watched. Took a long time for four or five pages of script.