Salome/English National Opera; Siegfried/Götterdämmerung; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra – review

London Coliseum; Royal Opera House, London; Lighthouse, PooleBlood and guts meet street dance and a kinky Santa in a provocative production of Strauss’s opera. And Wagner’s Ring ended on a highLove is blind. A photographic image of a blindfolded head, part wilful Cupid in ecstasy, part tortured prisoner, fills the back wall for much of English National Opera’s new production of Richard Strauss’s Salome. No, not Jokanaan (John the Baptist), whose own head arrives, fres...

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