07 Oct 2007
Das Rheingold, Royal Opera House, London
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/16568476-71c6-11dc-8960-0000779fd2ac.html
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/16568476-71c6-11dc-8960-0000779fd2ac.html
By Richard Fairman [Financial Times, 3 October 2007]
If all-knowing Erda had pronounced on the likely fate of this first complete cycle of the Royal Opera’s new Ring des Nibelungen, she probably would have foretold disappointment.