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A Digital Disappointment: David Ames sees Opera Australia unveil its second new production of the tetralogy in a decade

A Digital Disappointment: David Ames sees Opera Australia unveil its second new production of the tetralogy in a decade

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Review of Der Ring des Nibelungen, directed Chen Shi-Zheng, conducted Auguin, Opera Australia, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, 2023.

March 2024, Volume 18, Number 1, 64–8.

In 2019 Opera Australia (OA) announced the mounting of a new ‘digital’ production of Der Ring des Nibelungen in Brisbane for the following year, the first ever presentation of the tetralogy in Queensland. Twice deferred due to Covid, the staging was at last unveiled at the beginning of December. I attended the third cycle.

To mount the Ring in one go is rarely attempted outside Bayreuth, for good reasons.

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