Der Fliegende Holländer Mel Cooper 13/06/2018 The team at the Longborough Festival have managed to produce a Flying Dutchman that will itself live in legend, I believe. It is a superb production, ...
Tristan und Isolde Mel Cooper 14/06/2017 This is quite simply one of the most engaging, stunningly apt and totally gripping productions of Tristan und Isolde, the work that Wagner called not ...
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Agustín Blanco-Bazán 22/03/2017 Kasper Holten´s new production of Wagner´s Meistersinger for the Covent Garden avoids references to Hans Sachs’ Nürnberg. Instead, the whole show is s...
Der Ring des Nibelungen: Götterdämmerung Tony Cooper 02/09/2016 This production of Götterdämmerung - the last opera in Wagner’s epic four-work Ring cycle directed by Frank Castorf - first saw the light of day in 20...
Der Ring des Nibelungen: Siegfried Tony Cooper 02/09/2016 First seen in 2013 as part of the complete Ring cycle to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Wagner’s birth, the third opera in the Ring, Siegfried, di...
Der Ring des Nibelungen: Die Walküre Tony Cooper 02/09/2016 In the second part of Wagner’s Ring cycle, Die Walküre - first seen in 2013 as part of the complete cycle to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Wagner...
Der Ring des Nibelungen: Das Rheingold Tony Cooper 02/09/2016 A run-down and faded 1950s motel on America’s famed Route 66, aptly named ‘Golden’, provides an authentic setting for Frank Castorf’s stylish and witt...
Parsifal Tony Cooper 20/08/2016 Specifically written for the Festspielhaus, Wagner described Parsifal as ‘ein Bühnenweihfestspiel’ (A Festival Play for the Consecration of the Stage)...
Der Fliegende Holländer Tony Cooper 20/08/2016 Wagner’s first mature opera written in 1841, Der fliegende Holländer is directed with great flair and imagination by the German theatre director, Jan ...
Tristan and Isolde Owen Davies 16/07/2016 Tristan and Isolde is an opera that stirs strong reactions among opera lovers. That Grange Park decided to mount it in what they describe as a “concer...
