Keith Warner on his Royal Opera House Ring Cycle

As the director revives his big, bold production of Wagner's epic cycle, he explains why these 16 hours of music will change his audiences' lives"The thing about Wagner," says Keith Warner, "is that there can be no true success in any production of his operas, only degrees of failure. There is so much in these bloody pieces, all you can do is try to live up to them."We are in a room high up above Covent Garden, speaking a few days before the curtain rises on Das Rheingold, the first opera in Wag...

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