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If I’m being totally honest, it’s my daily Elden Ring machine right now.

Pieces of the “Ring” machine, the problem-plagued device that served as a set in the most recent staging of these four Wagner operas, were stored here after it was disassembled in May; other components were sent to a climate-controlled warehouse in Newburgh, N.Y.

Leaving the Met, but Not for Valhalla 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.

By availing ourselves of the Nascopee River and the lakes through which it flows, we can easily penetrate to the highland where the inventor of the Ring machine has located himself.

The "ring" machine can be worked by a child, and can be learned in half an hour; that is the sole explanation of this deplorable phenomenon.