The conducting is as potent as Furtwängler’s: Opera North’s Ring reviewed

Das Rheingold; Die Walküre

Opera North, touring until 10 July

When I interviewed Richard Farnes in Leeds six years ago about Opera North’s project of performing the complete Ring, he struck me as the most modest conductor I had met or could imagine, with the possible exception of Reginald Goodall, who actually at a deep level wasn’t modest at all.

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TaggedAlberich, Brunnhilde, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Leeds, Opera, Opera North, Richard Farnes, Ring cycle, Susan Bickley, Wagner, Wotan

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The conducting is as potent as Furtwängler’s: Opera North’s Ring reviewed

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The cast includes a sensational Susan Bickley and the production remains precisely what it was, and is mainly successful </span></p>

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