Hints and tips:
...Horgan, Wagner Moura and Paul Dano — we see their initial mistrust develop into a tentative curiosity....
...In place of the scheduled theatre performances, director Yuval Sharon devised a “drive-in” Götterdämmerung at the Millennium Lakeside Parking Garage....
...But this is an exhibition where you are stuck on an uncomfortable wooden chair in a crowded sauna for almost five hours, staring at images while listening to Wagner....
...At its best, Sharon’s production is abstract and dissociative, but Wagner does not function in a void....
...Christina Bennington is a little heavy on the pants and yodels of musical-theatre vocals as Raven, and is outgunned by Sharon Sexton as her mother....
...Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet, by Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman, Princeton University Press, RRP£19.95/$27.95 We insure our lives against an uncertain future; so why not...
...Sharon Stone steps in at beginning and end. As the heroine’s mom, steely, controlling, neurotic, she is only a make-up layer away from Snow White’s stepmother....
...A jungle world with mountain crags strung vertically like necklaces; rainbow-coloured dragons that fizz around the sky like living fireworks; a sacred tree so enormous it makes Wagner’s World-Ash-Tree seem...
...For a refreshment break I tried Parsifal at the Staatsoper, but the production is by movie producer and screenwriter Bernd Eichinger, who presents Wagner’s redemption opera as a prophecy of 9/11....
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