Das Rheingold at Vienna State Opera Is the Production Everyone's Talking About

The Vienna State Opera just delivered a Das Rheingold that has the opera world doing something rare: actually agreeing on something. The production is being described as fantastic, a word that gets thrown around so much in opera criticism that when it sticks, you know something genuine has landed. This is the kind of performance that reminds you why the Ring cycle still matters and why Vienna remains the epicenter of how opera conducts this conversation with itself.