My year of chasing new Ring cycles across Europe ended, appropriately enough, in flames. 

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… is a journalist and critic based in Munich. He has written about music and theater for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Gramophone and The Spectator. Until it folded in 2023, he was the Berlin,...