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An electrifying beginning for Fulham Opera's Ring

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Reviewed at St John's Fulham, London on 9 February 2014
Wagner, Das Rheingold
Nick Fletcher, Conductor
Emma Peaurt, Woglinde
Jemma Brown, Erda
Lindsay Bramley, Flosshilde
Elizabeth Russo, Fricka
Jonathan Finney, Loge
Oliver Gibbs, Alberich
Stephen John Svanholm, Donner
Gerard Delrez, Wotan
Antoine Salmon, Fafner
Oliver Hunt, Fasolt
Patriot games: Simon Boccanegra at Fulham Opera
****1
Tempest-tossed on the storm of life
****1
Ben Woodward, in his superb musical act of reduction with Fulham Opera at St John's Church, Fulham, has brought us a Ring of eyewatering clarity, raw beauty and visceral power. Cancel everything, and go.
*****
The Fulham Ring concludes with Götterdämmerung
***11
Wagner done proud in Fulham: Siegfried from Fulham Opera
****1
Die Walküre at Fulham Opera
***11
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