On Monday, Radio 3 is broadcasting all 16 hours of Wagner’s Ring Cycle in a single day. Can anyone really sit through all this?
The Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins tried. “My God, it’s a marathon!”
“When Radio 3 announced plans to broadcast Wagner’s Ring cycle in one day - 16 hours of music - it was with disbelief that I heard its controller, Roger Wright, say that he expected people to sit down and listen to the whole thing from start to finish,” writes Higgins. “Christ, I thought, yet more evidence of the insanity of opera types.”
via The Guardian
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