Theater
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Wagner @ Bayreuth: Frank Castorf's 'Rheingold' and 'Walküre' Better Than Expected
An oil-themed staging of Richard Wagner's famous 'Ring Cycle' for his bicentenary year in the opera house he built in Bayreuth showed signs on Saturday of defying predictions it would be a disaster that might even bring down the house. BREAKING: U.K.'s 'Independent on Sunday' Reportedly Axes its Critics
The role of reviewers in today's society has been further degraded today by the U.K.'s Independent On Sunday newspaper, which has--our colleague Norman Lebrecht reports at his Slipped Disc blog--just made almost all of its critics redundant. It will, he says, instead run a digest of arts reviews.
