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Das Rheingold

Composer:
Composer: Richard Wagner. Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Management:
Royal Opera
Cast:
Bryn Terfel, Peter Coleman-Wright, Andrew Rees, Stig Andersen, Iain Paterson, Eric Halfvarson, Wolfgang Koch, Gerhard Siegel, Sarah Connolly, Ann Petersen, Maria Radner, Nadine Livingstone, Kai Ruutel, Harriet Williams
Director:
Keith Warner
Design:
Stefanos Lazaridis
Lighting:
Wolfgang Gobbel
Costumes:
Marie-Jeanne Lecca
Run time:
2hrs 40mins

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Review: The Royal Opera is celebrating the Wagner anniversary early - 2013 marks 200 years since his birth - with four cycles of Keith Warner's Ring production. When this staging was launched in 2004/06, the designs by the late Stefanos Lazaridis (who died in 2010) led to some disappointment - unlike in the best of his work, the results often look cluttered and fussy, something unfortunately mirrored in Warner's direction. The last half hour of Gotterdammerung is still a terrible mess. Elsewhere - including in parts of Die Walkure and much of Siegfried - Lazaridis' visuals are pared down, allowing the narrative to come through to inescapably powerful effect...

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October 2, 2012

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