Barbican, London - Wagner Dream Reviews
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Wagner Dream

Barbican, London


No. 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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