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Evening Standard
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
Die Walküre at Royal Opera: Valkyries Ride through ecological catastrophe
Brünnhilde herself is sung by Elisabet Strid, who more than makes up for a less than stentorian voice with the warmth and credibility of her girlish Valkyrie. Of a piece with this casting is the Wotan of Christopher Maltman. While his voice may lack the expansiveness that, say, John Tomlinson brought to the previous Covent Garden production, by Keith Warner, he brings all the subtlety and nuance to his delivery that he crafted as a lieder singer earlier in his career.
Bloomberg
24-02-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
The Fat Lady Sings, and Germany's Center Holds
To get John Authers' newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here. In politics and economics, as in opera, it's not over until the fat lady sings. In the most famous German saga of them all, Brünnhilde saves her self-immolation until the final scene of Götterdämmerung — Twilight of the Gods — at the end of Wagner's Ring cycle. German politics hasn't reached such a point, and for the bean-counters who allocate money, that is what counts.
