Moustached ring.(Music)(Der Ring des Nibelungen)(Opera Review)

THERE IS NO REASON why Adelaide should not become the Bayreuth of the southern hemisphere. The city is just the right size, not too large, not too small; the urban environment is one of the most attractive in the country, with beautifully landscaped parks and avenues enhancing an unusually large number of architectural gems that either through good luck or timely financial penury survived untouched by the modernist insanities of the postwar decades; more important, artistic festivities such as the Ring cycle elicit a convincing response from the whole city, which translates into an extraordinary warmth of hospitality and administrative efficiency resting on the shoulders ...