Fearlessly heroic: Siegfried gets the Longborough Ring back on track

Bradley Daley (Siegfried)

Lee Bisset (Brünnhilde) and Bradley Daley (Siegfried)

Bradley Daley (Siegfried) and Adrian Dwyer (Mime)

Mark Stone (Alberich) and Paul Carey Jones (Der Wanderer)

Julieth Lozano (Waldvogel)

By Matthew Rye, 31 May 2022

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“Negus... now enjoying his own Indian summer as one of the most sought-after Wagner conductors”

Reviewed at Longborough Festival Opera, Moreton-in-Marsh on 30 May 2022

Wagner, Siegfried

Longborough Festival Opera

Anthony Negus, Conductor

Amy Lane, Director

Rhiannon Newman Brown, Set Designer

Emma Ryott, Costume Designer

Charlie Morgan Jones, Lighting Designer

Longborough Festival Opera Orchestra

Bradley Daley, Siegfried

Lee Bisset, Brünnhilde

Adrian Dwyer, Mime

Paul Carey Jones, Der Wanderer

Mark Stone, Alberich

Simon Wilding, Fafner

Julieth Lozano Rolong, Waldvogel (the woodbird)

Mae Heydorn, Erda

Dorman’s Wahnfried receives its UK premiere at Longborough

Mark Pullinger, 27th May

Longborough Festival Opera, built on Wagnerian foundations, stages the UK premiere of Avner Dorman’s ambitious cautionary tale about the Wagner clan and establishing the composer’s legacy.

***11

An enthralling Walküre at Longborough Opera Festival

David Karlin, 18th June

Who wouldn't relish the chance of seeing a Ring cycle at close quarters? Longborough's Die Walküre isn't perfect, but it consistently delivers on the story and on character interpretation.

****1

Back to the Bard: Longborough's Fairy Queen

Roy Westbrook, 29th July

Polly Graham's production turns semi-opera into “three-quarters opera”, to good effect.

***11

Don't look back: Longborough's new L'Orfeo

Roy Westbrook, 11th July

Olivia Fuchs directs Monteverdi's early opera in a sparse staging with a consistently fine cast.

***11

Fame and feuding on the Rhine: Longborough's new Götterdämmerung

Roy Westbrook, 29th May

Longborough's Ring Cycle reaches completion in the Cotswold's, effectively staged by Amy Lane.

****1

Grief compellingly explored: Die tote Stadt at Longborough

David Karlin, 27th June

An outstanding performance from Rachel Nicholls lights up Carmen Jakobi's compelling production of Korngold's exploration of grief.

****1

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Matthew Rye

Matthew read music at Oxford and worked in music journalism for 30 years as a writer, critic and editor. He wrote numerous programme and CD booklet notes, spent 13 years as a Daily Telegraph critic, worked at BBC Music Magazine and was reviews editor of The Strad. He also wrote for The Wagner Journal and Opera and blogged at ferneklang.blogspot.co.uk. He was general editor of 1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die (Cassell Illustrated, 2007) and was the author of a new series of eBooks, Masterpieces of Music (Erudition).