- Furtwangler's 1953 Ring Cycle = ZOMGWOW. I may be spoiled for listening to any Ring ever again. That was amazing. Can I please have another?
-- Similarly, the 1980 Boulez Bayreuth Ring Production has absolutely and without a doubt the best ACTING I've seen in a Ring yet. This is probably due to the director being primarily a theatre director, not an opera director - same thing with Baz Lhurmann's Boheme.
