Tag / David Poutney

Last Thursday was the UK premier of the full stage version of Wagner Dream, put on by the Welsh National Opera.  It was a stunning production and provoked some wonderful reviews, which are summed up on Faber's website HERE .  If you haven't seen it, you can still catch the final performance in Birmingham tomorrow.

2013 is Wagner’s bicentenary year and Wagner operas are everywhere you look, but Welsh National Opera have chosen to mark the occasion in a rather different way with the first fully-staged UK performance of Jonathan Harvey’s Wagner Dream. In Harvey’s opera the dying Wagner reflects on his own unfinished Buddhist opera,...