The Met Packs Up Its Notorious ‘Ring’ Machine

NYTimes.com: The Metropolitan Opera’s “Ring” machine — the huge, glitch-prone contraption that served as a single set for all four operas in the Wagnerian cycle — rumbled upstage this week for a less-than-grand season finale. No Valkyries or Rhinemaidens or gods were around, just stagehands assigned to take it apart and send it off to storage.