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TULLY POTTER reviews: Die Walkure at the Royal Opera House: The costumes are a mess and there's a giant log in the middle of the set... but the singing and playing are glorious
The new ROH Ring reaches its second evening with the best all-round cast I can recall in Die Walkure.
The new ROH Ring reaches its second evening with the best all-round cast I can recall in Die Walkure: the uniformly sonorous sounds emanating from the stage are matched by the glorious row coming from the pit. As Brunnhilde, the Valkyrie of the title, Swedish soprano Elisabet Strid is vertically challenged — she needs some of the stature of Russian mezzo Marina Prudenskaya's fine Fricka (familiar from Rheingold in 2023), who has inches to spare — but she sings with power and intensity. Sir Antonio Pappano and the orchestra generate tremendous power in such big numbers as the Ride of the Valkyries — a pity Barrie Kosky's production renders the scene pathetic to the eye.
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