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The finale of Opera North's Ring is brilliantly successful

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“Props would have been superfluous”
Reviewed at Leeds Town Hall, Leeds on 14 June 2014
Wagner, Götterdämmerung
Richard Farnes, Conductor
Peter Mumford, Director
Alwyn Mellor, Brünnhilde
Orla Boylan, Gutrune
Mati Turi, Siegfried
Eric Greene, Gunther
Mats Almgren, Hagen
Lee Bisset, Third Norn
Madeleine Shaw, Wellgunde
Katherine Broderick, Woglinde
Sarah Castle, Flosshilde
Heather Shipp, Second Norn
Susan Bickley, Waltraute
Fiona Kimm, First Norn
Jo Pohlheim, Alberich
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Opera North’s gleeful Magic Flute revived
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