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The third instalment of the Ring in a weekend continued to feature solid singing and orchestra playing as Siegfried played through the night. 

Peter Sellars successfully updated the ancient magic in Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde. Wagner had already modernised the medieval tale by focusing on the middle of the story, where the passion of the doomed lovers catches fire. Wagner treats the mythic origins of the romance as back-story recollected while passions are flaring.

Die Premiere von Franz Schrekers Oper Der ferne Klang am Nationaltheater Mannheim überzeugte mit einer gelungenen musikalischen Darbietung, war jedoch gewöhnungsbedürftig und eigenwillig inszeniert.