In 1976 French director Patrice Chereau's centenary staging of Wagner's Ring cycle unleashed the greatest scandal in Bayreuth Festival history but by the end of its last performances in 1980 this epoch-making production was acclaimed with an hour and a half of thunderous applause.
Gotterammerung is the 'third day' of Wagner's great tetra logy of music dramas Der Ring Des Nibelhngen.
Puccini's 'Turandot' as directed by David Pountney. His production is based on the idea of fear of civilisation: the fear that the fatal combination of rapid technological progress gradually spinning out of control and inhuman political systems poses a fundamental threat to all human values.
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