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Göteborg Opera's gleaming new Siegfried, pandemic style
Forced to shift to online for the third episode of its Ring cycle, Göteborg Opera delivers absorbing new production by Stephen Langridge.
Romantic love blooms in the lost garden of West Horsley
Olena Tokar's assured coloratura made an immediate success of the waltz with her convincingly adolescent appearance, rhythmic verve and stylish phrasing.
Full immersion, total immolation
Crowning this cycle came a truly magnificent performance of Götterdämmerung, centred very much on Richard Farnes and his orchestra.
Dragonslayer: Siegfried battles valiantly
While the Welsh were merrily slaying Belgians in Euro 2016, one dragon was on the receiving end at the Royal Festival Hall.
Dipping a toe into the Rhine
Opera North's cycle offers a form of personal Wagner therapy: all four music dramas in concert performances, but with carefully choreographed video and lighting effects.
Notorious: world première in Gothenburg
When one of the most sought-after sopranos of our time slips into the role of her most famous countrywoman, the foundations for an eventful evening of opera have already been laid. The Swedish world première Notorious, after Alfred Hitchcock's film of the same title, shows in an all-round successful production that contemporary opera can have a promising future.
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
Richard Farnes; Peter Mumford; Opera North; Michael Druiett; Andrew Foster-Williams; Mark Le Brocq; Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke
LeedsSiegfried Act 2
Wagner: Siegfried
Richard Farnes; Peter Mumford; Opera North; Béla Perencz; Lars Cleveman; Richard Roberts; Jo Pohlheim
LeedsGötterdämmerung Prologue & Act 1
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Richard Farnes; Peter Mumford; Opera North; Mati Turi; Kelly Cae Hogan; Andrew Foster-Williams; Giselle Allen