Two years ago, the Metropolitan Opera went shopping for a new Ring in London and came home empty-handed.
Eerie, vivid and intense, Kosky's version of Das Rheingold, the first Ring opera, is a show that an opera house on either side of the Atlantic could be proud of, accessible and stimulating for Wagner newcomers and connoisseurs alike.
His signature style is zany, high-spirited and high-kicking, but he can do sober and austere when the piece calls for it, like a starkly savage Kat'a Kabanova at the Salzburg Festival last year.
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