Stage tricks sometimes misfire in Lyric's musically strong new 'Walkure'
Welcome to the grandest of all dysfunctional-family dramas. With Richard Wagner’s “Die Walkure” (“The Valkyrie”) we move from the fairy tale realm of gods, giants and dwarfs in “Das Rheingold” — the prologue to the composer’s mammoth cycle “Der Ring des Nibelungen” — to the world of human beings...
Chicago Tribune — Welcome to the grandest of all dysfunctional-family dramas. With Richard Wagner’s “Die Walkure” (“The Valkyrie”) we move from the fairy tale realm of gods, gian... more info