Götterdämmerung; BBC Proms – review

Longborough, Gloucestershire; Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe idea that you can drive down a lane or up a wold, park in a field then have an operatic experience comparable with the best still feels miraculous. UK operagoers should be used to this kind of thing, given our appetite for bucolic summer revels. Not a bit. This week an outstanding Götterdämmerung – the fourth and last opera in Wagner's Ring cycle – in the Gloucestershire village of Longborough was the latest to have us rubbing our ...

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