Yet the twisting relationship between Wotan, king of the Gods, and his favourite daughter, the Valkyrie Brünnhilde in the cycle's second opera, Die Walküre, was as agonising as any great production of King Lear; Sieglinde and Siegfried's coming together in the same opera as breathtaking as the 'recognition' scene between Electra and Orestes.
I was baffled, especially when, with my £6 ticket, I was seeing the same opera as people who'd paid ten times more for theirs.
And the same opera's "Air de Triomphe" and "Air Gai" are as regal as anything in Handel's "Royal Fireworks Music".
Every evening, the same opera.
I always try to avoid thinking of other works that have dealt with the same subject, just as when I'm staging operas, I do my utmost to avoid good productions of the same opera.
This week, the same four singers took to the stage in Moscow to perform the same opera.
An idiosyncrasy of opera in Berlin is that different opera houses frequently schedule the same opera, not only in the same season but also in the same week and sometimes the same night, and Mr. Stölzl considered this impractical, too.
New Yorkers are watching the same operas now as they were a century ago – and Australia's major companies are reflecting the same trend.
The new season presents the same operas and musical compositions it did in the old season.
This seems to me as momentous for opera as the same moment was for the original play when it was first performed over 110 years ago.
