The concept was not to use digital imagery as a backdrop to a standard opera production but to reverse the process. The imagery is the core, the storytelling the hub. The live musical soundtrack is not a symphony orchestra playing along to Star Wars but a saxophone and piano ensemble stitching together the tapestry of Wagnerian motifs to reflect the action in real time. Singers intersperse the spoken storytelling like a jam sandwich, sweetening the gruelling saga with moments of pure Wagnerian melody – those moments which delight the audience in between long expository or analytical passages in original productions. Occasionally a singer will have just one or two lines, more often the essence of a duet, without preambles. Wagner’s music is so organic it lends itself to this treatment. Indeed, one prominent film composer said that Wagner would have been the best film music composer, evoking whole worlds with just a few bars of music.