Wagner Dream - review

Barbican, LondonFor much of his life, Wagner was drawn to eastern philosophy, and from 1856 repeatedly toyed with the idea of an opera on a Buddhist subject called Die Sieger (The Victors). Only the briefest of sketches remain, though he intended to return to the work after completing Parsifal. He died, of course, before he could do so. Die Sieger and its history, however, form the subject of Jonathan Harvey's opera Wagner Dream, which shows the dying composer being granted a vision of the work ...

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