02 Dec 2006
Das Rheingold
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14936-2482425,00.html
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14936-2482425,00.html
Richard Morrison at the Wales Millennium Centre [Times Online, 2 December 2006]
The Russians don’t exactly have Wagner in their blood. Before Valery Gergiev reintroduced the Ring cycle to the Maryinsky Theatre in St Petersburg three years ago, it had not been staged in the country since 1913.