Hundreds of bodies painted red evoked the underworld of Nibelheim or the breath of the dragon from Siegfried as an installation by Spencer Tunick for the Munich Opera Festival ....

The Bavarian State Opera opened the 2012 Munich Opera Festival with an installation by artist Spencer Tunick on June 23. 1,700 art lovers posed nude for the visiting New Yorker's installation based on The Ring of the Nibelung production by Andreas Kriegenburg. The participants met around 3 a.m. in the Munich city center to get naked for Tunick and paint their bodies with either gold or red body make-up. Right before sunrise at 5.15 a.m., Tunick had everybody in place for the first set-up on Ludwigstraße, one of Munich’s big avenues.  Could this have occurred on the steps of the Metropolitan Opera in NYC?......