Richard Wagner's dark knight returns to Lyric Opera in Chicago

Here's the review from the Chicago Tribune. 

It's been said that more has been written about Richard Wagner than anybody who's ever lived, except for Jesus Christ. Wagner no doubt would have been flattered by the comparison.
Despite the manifold glories of the German Romantic composer's music, his operas can be a tough slog, with their convoluted librettos, logjams of German consonants and expansive running times that make the operas of Giuseppe Verdi – that other 19th century musical titan whose bicentennial the world is celebrating this year – seem to whisk by like MTV videos.

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