For the past three afternoons I had the great pleasure of watching on DVD an entirely different production of this Gesamtkunstwerk courtesy of col legno, an innovative Vienna recording company. Instead of I trying to tell you all about it, this article does it so much better:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/258ff218-3479-11dc-8c78-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=10a38770-51d6-11da-9ca0-0000779e2340,print=yes.html#
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