Richard Wagner
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Former cabinet colleagues spend summer break together enjoying Wagner’s Ring Cycle and its stories of power and betrayal
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What was it like to be Wagner? Why has he always exerted such a strong pull? This is an astute book on a man without boundaries
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Cleveman/Dalayman/Tomlinson/Roth/Hallé/Elder
(Hallé, four CDs)
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The director throws everything and Bryn Terfel at a vivid Covent Garden finale, set in a gilded gentlemen’s club of song, that sometimes sits at odds with the drama
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Embraced by the Nazis, Wagner’s operatic masterpiece has long been shrouded in controversy. Its debate about cultural unity is now more relevant than ever
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Callow’s life of Wagner reveals more about his wardrobe than his genius
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State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne
With the revival of Neil Armfield and Opera Australia’s dazzling and moving production of Wagner’s epic, it’s easy to see how a ‘Ring-nut’ is born
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Letters: The jazz pianist Uri Caine recorded a series of Wagner lollipops live for a klezmer band, featuring, of course, an accordion
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The power and greed of Wagner’s Ring have never rung more true than in this imaginatively staged and beautifully played production
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Brief letters: Metropolitan indifference | EU appreciation | A long time in politics
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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg review – riveting restaging puts Wagner on trial