Wagner
Bring on the dinosaurs
For hardcore old opera buffers, there are still a few places of refuge
Bane sailing
There’s got to be some sort of price to pay for being so fabulous
Spare me the Great Canadian Warbler
Radio 4 celebrates the limited talents of Joni Mitchell
High-octane despair
Das Rheingold, Royal Opera House
The rise and fall of Prigozhin
How Wagner came down to earth
Freak shows
Horrors wrestled into being
The jackpot of opera
The Rhinegold, English National Opera, Coliseum
Let’s appreciate Wagner for Wagner
Politics and historical commentary aside, Lohengrin is currently on at Covent Garden
Ring of fire
The ENO’s production of The Valkyrie may lack flames, but it is convincing nonetheless
Wagner, restless provocateur
Wagner’s sexual ambiguity spoke to Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and Thomas Mann, says Norman Lebrecht
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