A semi-successful semi-staging of Die Walküre at Longborough

By Mark Valencia, 08 June 2021

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“I could have listened to them both all night – and in the case of Carey Jones I practically did”

Reviewed at Longborough Festival Opera, Moreton-in-Marsh on 5 June 2021

Wagner, Die Walküre (Concert production)

Longborough Festival Opera

Anthony Negus, Conductor

Amy Lane, Director

Rhiannon Newman Brown, Set Designer

Emma Ryott, Costume Designer

Charlie Morgan Jones, Lighting Designer

Paul Carey Jones, Wotan

Peter Wedd, Siegmund

Sarah Marie Kramer, Sieglinde

Brindley Sherratt, Hunding

Lee Bisset, Brünnhilde

Madeleine Shaw, Fricka

Katie Lowe, Helmwige

Cara McHardy, Ortlinde

Carolyn Dobbin, Siegrune

Emma Lewis, Roßweiße

Katie Stevenson, Grimgerde

Rhonda Browne, Schwertleite

Meeta Raval, Gerhilde

Flora McIntosh, Waltraute

Lorena Randi, Choreography

Longborough Festival Opera 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.

A semi-successful semi-staging of Die Walküre at Longborough Festival Opera