My take on the second part of Tacoma Opera’s Ring adventure for Classical Voice North America:
Tacoma Opera brought Wagner’s Die Walküre to the city’s historic Pantages Theater Oct. 9 and 11 in what appears to have been Tacoma’s first fully staged production of the opera. The occasion marked the second installment of Tacoma Opera’s first Ring cycle, launched a year ago with Das Rheingold….
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Thanks so much for this – a model of how to review an ambitious regional company. Good for Tacoma Opera; huge props and respect for taking this on.
You’re absolutely right about the weirdness of cutting (all of ?!) Wotan’s monologue. Hard to understand his motivations in its absence.