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Opera

On the evidence of their Siegfried, Regents Opera's Ring will be well worth catching

17 February 2024

9:00 AM

17 February 2024

9:00 AM

Siegfried

Freemasons’ Hall

The Handmaid’s Tale

London Coliseum

It’s sometimes said that if Wagner were alive today he’d be making movies, but come on – really? A generation of Wagnerites has grown up for whom the first and definitive encounter with Der Ring des Nibelungen was on the small screen – in my case, the BBC’s early-eighties serialisation of the Bayreuth centenary production.

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