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Mariinsky Ring Part 1: Not Promising
Some context needs to be set around what is to follow. The Mariinsky Theatre, led by Valery Gergiev, have brought their much toured Ring Cycle to Covent Garden. Ticket prices for the cycle are, in...
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Mariinsky Ring Part 2: faltering start, glimmers of hope
And so to Die Walküre… If I weren’t so easy-going temperamentally, I’d have left after Act 1 and not darkened the door of the opera house again whilst the Mariinsky company were on the premises. This...
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Mariinsky Ring Part 3: Surprise!
An enjoyable evening. Much more on the level of acts 2 and 3 yesterday, rather than of the dire Walkure act 1 or the troubled Rheingold. And for me to call Siegfried enjoyable is quite something, so...
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Mariinsky Ring Part 4: the ups and downs continue to the end
The one consistent thing that you can say about this ring is that it is inconsistent, and that inconsistency continued to the very end. Were any threads tied together? Nope. Did the production come...
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And the rest is silence
The blogging disappeared for a bit there, possibly on account of having a pleasant but nonetheless rather aimless summer. We were last seen heading to St Pancras for the wonderfully fast trip non-stop...
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