At the 1976 premiere of the Bayreuth centenary production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, there came a moment when Donald McIntyre, playing the part of Wotan, ruler of the gods, turned, in the second act of Die Walküre, to look into a…

At the 1976 premiere of the Bayreuth centenary production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, there came a moment when Donald McIntyre, playing the part of Wotan, ruler of the gods, turned, in the second act of Die Walküre, to look into a…