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What have Michael Schulz, Renee Listerdal and Dirk Becker done? I had high hopes for a modernized staging of the end of the Ring Cycle, since I have only the Met's wonderful production from years ago on DVD. This set and costumes visually turns the opera into the equivalent of a cheap, low-budget, hole in the wall production. Fortunately, the orchestra under Carl St. Clair plays very well and most singers, particularly the three leads, are very good (many of the secondary singers are not up to par). The efforts of the leading singers, however, are nearly lost to this short-sighted concept. Modern opera directors often have brilliant ideas, but there were none here. Sorry, guys, this was a design and direction failure, not a good recipe for a DVD.