Review: ‘Götterdämmerung’ Opera Australia

Review: ‘Götterdämmerung’ Opera Australia

  Opera Australia:Der Ring des Nibelungen: Götterdämmerung Arts Centre Melbourne/25 November 2013 *****    The Third Day of Wagner’s music colossus concluded what has been the kind of festival he had planned: all four operas being performed in close succession by outstanding singers and a Wagner sized orchestra of excellent musicians in a production that illuminates…

Review: ‘Siegfried’ Opera Australia

Review: ‘Siegfried’ Opera Australia

Opera Australia: Der Ring des Nibelungen: Siegfried Arts Centre Melbourne/22 November 2013 *****   Brünnhilde’s final outpouring to Siegfried at the end of the second day of Wagner’s music drama begins: ‘O kindischer Held! O herrlischer Knabe! Du hehrster Taten töriger Hort!’ The terms ‘childish’, ‘boy’ and ‘foolish’ are among several along these lines that may…