In this week’s issue, Alex Ross’s reviews the new production of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” at the Met. In the opening scene, three Rhinemaidens are suspended from cables above the stage, as if floating in water.
In the startling Martin Schoeller photograph that accompanies Ross’s column, the Rhinemaidens, dressed in their formal flippers, take flight over the Lincoln Center’s Revson Fountain. (Subscribers can read Ross’s piece, as well as John Seabrook’s story on Revson Fountain, from January.) Here’s video of the photo shoot, by Natalie Jacoby.
