Taipei, July 7 (CNA) The New Puppet Theatre Lab will perform a glove puppetry version of German composer Richard Wagner's "Ring Cycle" at the National Center for Traditional Arts in Yilan County on Saturday and Sunday, according to a statement released by the group.
The show has been adapted from Wagner's "Ring Cycle" ("Der Ring des Nibelungen"), which consists of four individual operas -- "Das Rheingold," "Die Walküre," "Siegfried" and "Götterdämmerung."
The four operas take more than 15 hours to perform, but the glove puppetry version will last around 90 minutes, according to the Tai-Jih Percussion Group, which will play a traditional Chinese music version of the orchestral suite "The Ring Without Words."
The show will be directed by France-based puppeteer Yeung Faï (楊輝) and feature soprano Chen Yu-chen (陳譽晨), who will sing select songs from the opera series, according to the statement.
According to the New Puppet Theatre Lab, this is not the first time it has turned a Western opera into a glove puppet show, as the group has staged a glove puppet version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Magic Flute."
That adaptation was first staged in 2020 and most recently performed at the Yunlin International Puppet Theater Festival in October 2022, according to the statement.
The New Puppet Theatre Lab will give four free shows -- at 11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday -- at the National Center for Traditional Arts, it said.
