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Andrew Clements – The Guardian
This concert performance, part of the new opera group’s Ring Cycle, made the lack of any theatrical setting cease to …
Paul Dawson-Bowling – Wagner News
Is it possible to base a successful Siegfried simply on Erda and the Woodbird? Perhaps not, but Saffron Walden came …
Charlotte Valori – operissimawhispers
Since their affecting Das Rheingold and resplendent Die Walküre in 2016, the Saffron Opera Group’s Ring Cycle has become something …
Paul Dawson-Bowling – Wagner News
It was remarkable that it could happen at all, this performance of Die Walküre; but it was even more remarkable …
Peter Reed – Opera Magazine
After the techno high jinks of the Met’s cinema relay of Tristan und Isolde the day before, Saffron Opera Group’s …
Jim Pritchard – Seen & Heard International
It was time to be back in rural Essex where the Saffron Opera Group are working their way through Wagner’s …
Charlotte Valori – operissimawhispers
Usually, a Ring Cycle hits you as a sudden burst of musical and philosophical intensity, its four huge evenings sprawling …
Jim Pritchard – Seen & Heard International
This was my second – and what a second – experience of a full concert performance by the Saffron Opera …
Charlotte Valori – Bachtrack
A concert performance can be almost a contradiction in terms for opera: music built to hold a powerful narrative, rich …
Paul Dawson-Bowling – Wagner News
Das Rheingold at Saffron Walden was magnificent. Die Meistersinger 15 months ago had been a brave and admirable attempt, but …