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...His visits to the Royal Opera House have been more frequent — this is the fourth since the current production debuted in 2009 — but then the opera is Wagner’s shortest, a single act in this version, and...
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...Violence, slaughter, abuse and incest — what a way to celebrate! Of course, Wagner’s music is also about eros, and it was this that dominated the concert’s short first half....
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...— and to raise a laugh....
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...With a mega-rich provocateur in charge, and no board of directors, “the power that Dorsey so worried about has only been further centralised”, Wagner writes....
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