Summary
Can the ENO's new production of Wagner's famously difficult Ring cycle surpass expectations? And silence the critics of the Pounds 41- million refurbishment of their London home, the Coliseum, at the same time?
Neither opera companies nor opera-goers approach Wagner's Ring cycle lightly 15 hours of music spread over four evenings is no laughing matter. Wagner himself spent nearly 30 years working on it, from his initial conception in 1848 of just one opera, to the 1876 performance of all four operas at Bayreuth, the theatre he had built for it.See the full content of this document
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Lords of the Ring?
It's a quarter of a century since the English National Opera last staged a complete Ring.
Now the company is mounting a new production, and it could hardly have come at a more difficult time. In 2002, its general director Nicholas Payne resigned, with ENO facin...See the full content of this document
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