Rheingold, English National Opera, February 2023
Posted on 22 February 2023This new staging of Rheingold is part of a new production of Wagner’s Ring being produced in collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Director Richard Jones has given us a clear set of allusions in a modern setting, rather than a simplistic interpretation overlaid with subtleties that no audience member can fathom without reading an extensive essay in the programme. It’s an undoubted success that should serve the ENO well in its battle with anti-opera Arts Council that seeks to defund them. See my review in The Article.