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CLASSICAL: One more Ring to bind them all The Valkyrie/ ENO Coliseum LONDON Francesca da Rimini & Pagliacci/ Opera North Grand Theatre LEEDS Halle Orchestra/ Mark Elder Bridgewater Hall MANCHESTER
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Like a film critic with a closely guarded plot twist, I have some
misgivings about drawing attention to the beginning of The Valkyrie.
But few readers will be unaware by now of the ear-splitting scream
that opens Phyllida Lloyd's production: the boldest gesture yet in
her ongoing Ring Cycle for English National Opera. In the second
opera of the cycle, Lloyd's ideas have begun to ignite. Her use of
video projection is smoother, Richard Hudson's sets are sharper, and
Mark Henderson's lighting i...
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