Jonathan Harvey: Wagner Dream – review

Claire Booth, Gordon Gietz etc (soloists), Ictus Ensemble/Brabbins(Cypres)Jonathan Harvey has described his opera – given its recent UK concert premiere at the Barbican – as about the clash of two cultures: late Romanticism and knowledge through emotional intensity on the one hand, oriental, Buddhist-inspired detachment on the other. It's a bold, thought-provoking experiment, based on a fantasy episode on the day of Wagner's death in Venice in 1883. Welsh National Opera will stage this nine-...

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