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Vorabend zum Bühnenfestspiel

Grimeborn’s glittering treasure: Das Rheingold, Wagner

The Ring Cycle is opera’s biggest box set: a sixteen-hour binge of dwarves, nymphs, dragons, gods, heroes and monsters, all suspended inside one of the greatest philosophical conundrums expressed by…

August 4, 2019 in Vorabend zum Bühnenfestspiel.

Delighting the mind’s eye: Saffron Opera Group’s Das Rheingold

A concert performance can be almost a contradiction in terms for opera: music built to hold a powerful narrative, rich with visual effect and dramatic energy, suddenly finds itself all…

January 20, 2016 in Vorabend zum Bühnenfestspiel.

Wagner, Das Rheingold, Secret Opera

In King’s College’s highly-wrought, painted and gilded chapel, almost fine enough to be an antechamber of Valhalla itself, Secret Opera’s Das Rheingold opened with a truly magical evocation of the…

November 17, 2015 in Fringe, Vorabend zum Bühnenfestspiel.

If you go down to the Rhine today: Das Rheingold at Fulham Opera

Stripped back, bare, minimalist: not epithets you’d automatically apply to Wagner, the man who expects you to give over four days of your life to him every time you experience Der…

February 11, 2014 in Fringe, Vorabend zum Bühnenfestspiel.

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