Jon Else brings the “high art” of opera to a more populist level in this presentation of Wagner’s ring cycle told from the point of view of the stage hands. From the problems with the smoke machine to which stagehand is dating which “reinmaiden,” the backstage characters reveal the behind-the-scenes realities of the art world. The retelling of the twelve-hour opera culminates in a one-minute stop-action run through of the entire show.