Clever by a Half
Alberich (Todd Thomas) & the Rhine Maidens, in rehearsal for Scene I of Wagner’s Das Rheingold (Photo: North Carolina Opera)Instead of presenting Das Rheingold in one long, continuous take as Wagner originally intended, North Carolina Opera inserted a composer-sanctioned intermission at the spot where Loge, the god of fire and stealth, leads Wotan through a crevice and down into Nibelheim, ...