Tag Archives: Zurich

Zurich Opera is a Ring cycle to be cherished

Unlike many Ring series, Zurich Opera’s new staging will be remembered for many of the right reasons, not the wrong ones. This is a fresh and intelligent cycle, full of interest and consistently musically outstanding. Zürich Ring’s main achievement is musical and theatrical consistency. Andreas Homoki’s production and Christian Schmidt’s neoclassical sets provide a unified… Read More »

Europe’s best cities for wild swimming

There is something in the water; E.coli to be exact. Questions have been raised about how safe it will be for triathletes and open water swimmers participating in the 2024 Olympic Games after high levels of bacteria were found in the River Seine. Meanwhile, just before the Oxford and Cambridge regatta in March, both teams… Read More »