Tech Gremlins Return To Haunt L.A. Opera’s Rheingold

Three years ago, the company had to postpone the world premiere of Grendel when the computer controlling some elaborate and expensive stage machinery malfunctioned. Now the same problem is bedeviling L.A. Opera’s latest high-stakes production, the first installment in its Ring cycle: a “computer glitch” caused two different machinery problems during a performance last week.