Another marvellous Tasmanian icon was the venue for a second uplifting experience this past week. MONA hosted a filmed production of the Ring Cycle from the Metropolitan Opera in New York. I count myself really fortunate to have seen Siegfried and Gotterdammerung. The filming was imaginatively done and the singing, acting and orchestral performances were absolutely wonderful. The elevator descent past magnificent sandstone cliffs to the underground setting of MONA's theatre was eerily appropriate and the intermissions spent absorbing MONA's inimitable atmosphere only added to the ambience. It is such a pleasure to have a first class gallery here in Hobart, which is free for any Tasmanian to explore. And to view a performance of the Met in Tasmania is indescribably inspiring.
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