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...But the title “Hojotoho”, which opera lovers will recognise as Brünnhilde’s battle cry in Wagner’s Die Walküre, points towards another mythology altogether....
...Overcast skies; misty landscapes; runic colloquies among the brass (the army’s Forest Whitaker, the CIA’s Michael Stuhlbarg). The ordinary ambushed by the extraordinary....
...Clark and Wagner have looked hard and wide, and produced a homage that explains both why repetition matters and how Lowry developed beyond it....
...The chinoiserie of The Nightingale becomes an aquatic adventure, protagonists and their tiny alter-egos boating through a misty pool of water on the forestage....
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