Certainly, the highlight of the evening was the musical interpretation controlled by Sir Antonio Pappano, whose pacey account of the score, together with huge generosity of elucidation of the music li

To add to all the glorious singing, the conductor Antonio Pappano was perhaps the hardest working of all, conducting the Royal Opera House Orchestra with commendable vigour and a true understanding of

As in Siegfried, the performance here convinced me that the scrappiness of Das Rheingold was due to a desire to give every line within the texture its sung weight, even sometimes above the cohesion of

Conductor Antonio Pappano shows what an outstanding Wagnerian he is... but what a pity about the casting in this uneven foray into The Ring.

Pappano’s musical direction also reached its apex in the Ring’s final installment.