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A highly accomplished start to Stockholm's Ring

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“power struggles, deceit and betrayal as in a novel by Dickens or Balzac”
Reviewed at Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm on 24 May 2017
Wagner, Das Rheingold
Marko Letonja, Conductor
Staffan Valdemar Holm, Director
Bente Lykke Møller, Costume Designer
John Lundgren, Wotan
Kristian Flor, Donner
Joel Annmo, Froh
Jonas Degerfeldt, Loge
Johan Edholm, Alberich
Niklas Björling Rygert, Mime
Lennart Forsén, Fasolt
Rasmus Bodén, Fafner
Katarina Dalayman, Fricka
Susanna Stern, Freia
Katarina Leoson, Erda
Susann Végh, Wellgunde
Vivianne Holmberg, Woglinde
Johanna Rudström, Flosshilde
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