Gergiev's Ring Cycle comes to London

Four operas, four days, 15 hours of music. Is Valery Gergiev's race through Wagner's Ring at the ROH a brave innovation, or a shocking display of hubris?On the posters advertising the Mariinsky Theatre's production of Wagner's Ring cycle at the Royal Opera House, you see the image of a man whose a brow is furrowed in mystic contemplation, whose eyes are fixed on an unattainable middle distance, and whose hands are clenched in a fist that denotes virile strength under a surface of intellectual in...

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