The new production by NIKOLAUS LEHNHOFF of Wagner's
Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Munich National Theatre 2: Die Walkure Gods: Valkyries, Wotan's daughters:
BAVARIAN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALLISCH
(Bavarian Radio recording of the first night, given in March)
7.30 Act 1
8.45* Act 2
10.35* Act 3 including at 8.30* and 10.20* Conjuring the Sound of Myth, Patrick Carnegy introduces selections from Thomas Mann 's Pro and Contra Wagner in the new translation by ALAN BLUNDEN. read by Stephen Thome in which Mann sees The Ring as the mythic repudiation of 19th-century bourgeois materialism.
