Richard Wagner’s epic artistic extravaganza, Der Ring des Nibelungen, is a bucket list item for some and an obsession for others aching for immersion into its mix of myth and reality, while…
Author: Paul Selar
Götterdämmerung at Opera Australia
In one small but powerful and sobering moment, with micro-second flashbacks of digital imagery taking the audience back to where it all began seven days previously, it rather felt like…
Siegfried at Opera Australia
Arriving for the penultimate installment of Wagner’s Ring can make it feel like it’s almost over but, welcomingly, there are hours ahead to get to know Siegfried, Wagner’s heroic titular…
Die Walküre at Opera Australia
For all Chinese-born, New York-based director Chen Shi-Zheng’s attempts to posit Wagner’s 4-part Der Ring des Nibelungen as “modern science fiction” in a multiverse setting, all the archetypal elements Wagner wrote into…
Das Rheingold at Opera Australia
Having been postponed in both 2020 and 2021 due to the global pandemic, Opera Australia’s much-publicized new “digital” Ring Cycle finally opened Friday evening. And it couldn’t have been more…