Lumbering giants, a guy named Spike, maidens in gossamer dresses, dry ice and a poker game. From the opening shot until Valhalla goes up in flames, Jon Else's Sing Faster submerges you in a magical world behind the scenes at San Francisco Opera's 1990 staging of Wagner's Ring Cycle. It is a world I never tire of visiting, and my idea of a documentary good time. For me, Sing Faster is a love poem to craft. With equal parts inspiration, precision, teamwork and muscle, the stagehands create the world and destroy it in the course of Wagner's 17-hour extravaganza. It's a working-man's ballet, where
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