Rheingold is shrunk to just 18 musicians

Rheingold is shrunk to just 18 musicians

Opera

norman lebrecht

June 02, 2024

Wagner wrote the opera for an orchestra 85, but 18 is all Edmonton, Canada, can summon in a chamber version by Jonathan Dove and the late Graham Vick, set in London’s present-day East End.

The audience sits three-quarters of the way in the round and there is no orchestra pit.

Report by Tom Murray here.

 

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