Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic - The New York Times

Valentin Schwarz’s production of the four-opera epic presents human characters with relations even more tangled than usual.

BAYREUTH, Germany About 150 years ago, in a megalomaniacs coup, Richard Wagner built a theater on a hilltop here in northern Bavaria. His immense, complex, innovative operas had never been presented… [+10648 chars]

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