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An enthralling Walküre at Longborough Opera Festival
Who wouldn't relish the chance of seeing a Ring cycle at close quarters? Longborough's Die Walküre isn't perfect, but it consistently delivers on the story and on character interpretation.
Fame and feuding on the Rhine: Longborough's new Götterdämmerung
Longborough's Ring Cycle reaches completion in the Cotswold's, effectively staged by Amy Lane.
Lucid in music and narrative: ENO's Rhinegold
Martyn Brabbins conducts an excellent ENO orchestra and consistently good ensemble cast as Richard Jones delivers a wealth of narrative detail to introduce Wagner's Ring.
Richard Jones’ second London Ring falters at the first fence
Breastplates are back in vogue, but comedy horses and cheap production values undermine the first chapter in English National Opera's new Ring cycle.
A valiant Walküre at the Hackney Empire
Wagnerites can get their fix in London this week, where Die Walküre opens the Grimeborn Festival in Julia Burbach's new production of the adaptation by Graham Vick and Jonathan Dove.
A semi-successful semi-staging of Die Walküre at Longborough
Three performances in five days take their toll in a tight schedule of this concert production run in the Cotswolds.