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Oper Leipzig's Das Rheingold unfolds with no set changes, giving Wagner's music plenty of opportunities to fuel the imagination.

Leipzig routinely honours its native son with performances of Parsifal scheduled on and around Good Friday, which tempts a state of ritualized enactment best confined to the opera itself. (Vienna maintains the same tradition and is a magnet for self-appointed enforcers of the Bayreuth applause customs and their confrontational silencing of the ‘transgressors’.

Wenn Don Giovanni im Amerika des 21. Jahrhunderts leben würde. Dann wäre er der König der Vorstadt und der Partys, zumindest wenn es nach Jacopo Spirei geht.