Melbourne Ring Cycle Broadcasts

Das Rheingold (Photo from ABC website)

Listen to the Melbourne Ring Cycle! Broadcasts are available for 48 hours after being aired on the ABC. Das Rheingold was on this evening.

Wonderful singing and playing ... have a listen.

Victorian Art Gallery

This is the door to the Victorian Art Gallery. It reminded me of the water screen in the Adelaide production of Das Rheingold in 2004 which was enormous and effective. It replaced the theater curtains just as this one replaces a wall. As I looked through the gallery water curtain I waited for that long E flat major. (Das Rheingold begins with a 136-bar unmodulating prelude based on the chord of E flat major that is meant to represent the eternal unchanging motions of the River Rhine. Source: Wikipedia)

And inside the gallery, a sprinkler isolating valve.

Gallery tea shop which served all sorts of teas including smoked tea, good coffee
and an artistic selection of cakes.