What does it take to put on a Ring Cycle? Well, you’ll need five years to plan the logistics, enough orchestra musicians to cover 16 hours of music, 35 scenery trucks, a tech crew of 80 professionals, a conductor healthy enough to get through the damn thing without collapsing, and oh yes, “a 10×16-metre curtain of water that doesn’t splash the orchestra, make too much noise or drown the audience.”