Can the world be saved? And is opera a sensible place to work out how? Richard Wagner would say yes to both. The “universal artform” he reinvented first saw daylight with The Ring of the Nibelung, of which The Valkyrie is the second instalment. It is also the one where structures of fear and power begin to crumble, where mortals teach the gods how to behave and how to love.
06 July 2017, The Tablet
Wagner saves the day: lessons in love and good behaviour
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