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Opera

Longborough continues to be a refuge for British Wagnerians fleeing idiotic productions

16 June 2018

9:00 AM

16 June 2018

9:00 AM

Longborough Festival Opera, refuge for British Wagnerians fleeing unidiomatic musical performances and idiotically irrelevant and insulting productions, has rounded off its Wagner canon with its first Der fliegende Holländer. Next year a new production of the Ring begins, so presumably the small stage is considered inappropriate for the three Wagner dramas with indispensably large choruses.

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