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Opera

Wagner rewilded: Das Rheingold, at the Royal Opera House, reviewed

23 September 2023

9:00 AM

23 September 2023

9:00 AM

Tosca

Grand Opera House, Belfast

Das Rheingold

Royal Opera House, in rep until 29 September

In Northern Ireland Opera’s new Tosca, the curtain rises on a big concrete dish from which a pair of eyes gaze down, impassive. Walls of scaffolding tower on three sides of the stage, creaking as they expand under the heat of the stage lights. Point taken: Cameron Menzies’s production (the sets are by Niall McKeever) is a semi-abstract updating.

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