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Trotz vieler kluger Details gipfelt der neue Bayreuther Ring in einem eher schwachen Finale.

Wird Siegfried sein Mädchen bekommen? Wird sie sich als seine Schwester entpuppen? Und ist der ultimative Preis bereits in die falschen Hände geraten? Weitere Bilder aus Bayreuths faszinierendem neuen Ring.

Albery's production allows the opera to speak for itself, although sluggish pacing in the pit detract from the musical merits of this revival. 

The Bayreuth Festival's new Ring gets off to a promising start with a tautly directed Rheingold, but will we find out what it all means?

Forced to shift to online for the third episode of its Ring cycle, Göteborg Opera delivers absorbing new production by Stephen Langridge.

Verdi and Schiller lose out to Barbora Horáková in a new staging for English National Opera. 

A terrific opening to the 68th festival with Aigul Akhmetshina's sultry Dulcinée the standout in a great cast. 

Clad in sulphurous yellow with beaded jet shoulder pads she looked well able to vanquish Lohengrin in single combat with the swish of her cloak.

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari is a bit of a strange fish: a recluse, a self-described mystic, and proud enough of his hybrid German-Italian identity that he appended his mother’s maiden name to his own at the age of nineteen.

With Verdi's centenary coming up, his last opera Falstaff has had more attention than usual, with this production at Opera Holland Park following hot on the heels of Robert Carsen's new production at Covent Garden.