A topsy-turvy Rheingold in concert from Jurowski and the LPO

By Mark Valencia, 28 January 2018

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“Of Wotan the god there was scarcely a sign; all he left was a trail of notes”

Reviewed at Royal Festival Hall, London on 27 January 2018

Wagner, Das Rheingold

Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor

Matthias Goerne, Wotan

Maxim Paster, Loge

Stephen Gadd, Donner

Allan Clayton, Froh

Robert Hayward, Alberich

Adrian Thompson, Mime

Michelle DeYoung, Fricka

Lyubov Petrova, Freia

Matthew Rose, Fasolt

Brindley Sherratt, Fafner

Rowan Hellier, Wellgunde

Sofia Fomina, Woglinde

Lucie Spickova, Flosshilde

Anna Larsson, Erda

London Philharmonic Orchestra

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Mark Valencia

Mark has worked in arts journalism for four decades, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera and music. Mark also writes for Opera magazine and for Musical America as a correspondent for Europe and the UK.