Die Walküre | Opera review

Longborough Festival Opera, Moreton-in-MarshAny lingering notion that Longborough's full-scale Wagner Ring represented folly has been blown away with this fine production of Die Walküre, the second opera in the cycle: it has both intimacy and integrity.From the thunder of the opening prelude to the tenderness of Wotan's farewell to his daughter Brünnhilde, conductor Anthony Negus realises Wagner's score with great fluency and insight. Together with this authority from the pit, Alan Privett's d...

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