Barbican, London - Wagner Dream Reviews | 29 March 2024 |
Performance reviews
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Wagner DreamBarbican, LondonNo. of reviews: 8 |
Half-opera, half-play, Wagner Dream is a beguiling, perplexing work |
5 Feb 12 / Independent on Sunday |
Distant Wagnerian harmonies are fractured, splayed and reimagined as through an aural prism |
5 Feb 12 / The Observer |
Let down by an inadequate text |
4 Feb 12 / Classical Source |
Outmoded old hippie stuff |
2 Feb 12 / Telegraph |
Harvey’s Buddhist opera shackles a slowly building luminous score to a clunky libretto |
1 Feb 12 / Financial Times |
Banal libretto lets down Harvey’s Wagner Dream |
1 Feb 12 / Seen and Heard |
Jean-Claude Carrière's libretto has moments of triteness |
1 Feb 12 / The Guardian |
The vocal writing is simple and direct |
1 Feb 12 / The Stage |
Production details
Cast
Booth, Williams, Summers, Angas, Bailey, Staples
(c) Brabbins (d) Phelan
Performance dates
29 January 2012
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