The English Ring The 1983 Bayreuth
Festival production of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungs is staged by Sir Peter Hall with designs by William Dudley and conducted by Sir Georg Solti. Will this English assault on the green hill where Wagner built his theatre, establish a new style of Wagnerian production for the 80s?
Paul Vaughan has been backstage at the Festival Theatre to talk to those involved in mounting Wagner's masterpiece and reports on the critical reactions to the first complete cycle of Das Rheingold, Die
Walfciire, Siegfried and Gótterdümmerung.
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD Editor ROSEMARY HART