Hurrah for the bristling, infectious fun and gaiety and energy which breezes through the show’s dramatic arc and dance routines. The Australian cast is gifted.
This operatic cycle calls into question some of our basic assumptions about our world, assumptions which we may retain even when overtly denying them
Then Mime asks, What is the race which lives on the stage? And Wotan answers, On the stage live those consummate artists, the singers.
The beautiful and terrifying images that serve as scenery allow us, the audience, to experience the various often contradictory levels on which the work operates at once, as magic, as myth.
There isn’t a baton, a trembling shaping arm or a stern pose in sight, at 55, he exudes boyish energy but, there’s no doubt he’s the captain.