Chang Tou Liang, Wagner in the Tropics

November 2023, Volume 17, Number 3, 50–54.

The southeast Asian island-state of Singapore, just short of one and a half degrees north of the Equator, might be considered an unusual place to witness an opera by Richard Wagner. However, given the inexorable rise of professional orchestral music-making and opera productions in Singapore over the past four decades, the staged music of Wagner was the inevitable and logical endpoint.