It ends badly. Not Richard Wagner’s masterpiece. Tannhaüser ends well. I mean this new production from Los Angeles Opera which opened on Sunday 24 October. And, as the ending of Tannhaüser is the apex of the medieval redemption story with which Wagner was fixated, get that wrong and you’ve messed up.
Why men in nineteenth-century Wales dressed as women to protest taxation
The Rebecca riots were more than just a protest movement against the tolls. The concept of “Rebecca” still resonates in Wales to this day.
