Die Walküre/The Madness of an Extraordinary Plan - review

Bridgewater Hall, Manchester"In the entire history of art, no one has succeeded as I have," Roger Allam's Wagner rants in Gerard McBurney's The Madness of an Extraordinary Plan, commissioned by the Manchester international festival to precede the Hallé's two-day performance of Die Walküre. Collated from writings by Wagner and his contemporaries, the play examines both the genesis of the Ring cycle and the world of the egomaniac who created it.Allam plays the composer, while Deborah Findlay and...

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