Expensive Silliness

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That is what it needed to do in the Royal Opera's new production, which is directed by Keith Warner. The most curious aspect of it is that it has all the trappings of 'director's opera' of the past 30 years, but doesn't seem to have within or behind it any worked-out scheme.

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Expensive Silliness

Götterdämmerung Royal Opera House

On 5 August 1993 Sviatoslav Richter wrote in his notebook, after listening to a recording of Götterdämmerung (the Rome Radio recording under Furtwängler, made in 1953): 'What can you say about this music? You can only throw you...

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