What’s a piano doing in the middle of Wagner’s Ring?

What’s a piano doing in the middle of Wagner’s Ring?

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norman lebrecht

November 16, 2021

Stefan Herheim’s new production at Deutsche Oper is attracting a tsunami of ridicule.

He parades the cast in their winter underwear and puts a piano centre-stage, as a ‘musical-optical gateway to fantasy’.


photo: DeutscheOperBerlin

Among other irrelevancies, Mime is a Jewish caricature wearing a Wagner velvet cap and concentration-camp striped uniform.

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