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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Advance publicity promised that this new production of Das Rheingold, the first segment of Wagner’s Der Ring ...

Tomasz Konieczny (Alberich) and Norbert Ernst (Loge) compare their pleather onesies in the Met’s Das Rheingold. Ken Howard / Met Opera To be fair, it’s a tricky question. The opera is not, strictly ...

This was a concentrated and riveting realisation of the first part of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, with Jo Pohleim’s Alberich and Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke’s Loge particularly strong During his visit to ...

Rhinemaidens Katharina Konradi (Woglinde), Niamh O’Sullivan (Wellgunde) and Marvic Monreal (Flosshilde) taunt Christopher Purves (Alberich) in ‘Das Rheingold ...