Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review

Royal Opera House, LondonA dot of light expands to devour the darkness; the waters of the Rhine surge and heave; primal rumblings rise up from the pit, itself in blackout as the music starts. Covent Garden's Ring Cycle, in the first opera, Das Rheingold, begins with the Big Bang. Or at least, a Biggish Bang, the birth of a parallel universe which will end in black catastrophe before, in the radiant final bars of Götterdämmerung many hours and several days later, Wagner hints at redemption and ...

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