Siegfried – review

Royal Opera House, LondonThe course of Wagner's Ring never did run smooth. Before this third instalment of the Royal Opera's revival, Wolfgang Koch, the Alberich, was stricken with a voice-eradicating cold. Jochen Schmeckenbecher woke up in Vienna unaware he would be flying to London to sing that afternoon. Luckily, Alberich doesn't appear until act two: when Antonio Pappano raised his baton for act one, Schmeckenbecher was reportedly still at Heathrow. But he made it, and sang from the side whi...

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