Audio Interview: Heath Lees and Dimity Reed: Wagner's Ring
A few weeks ago we featured Heath Lees fascinating new four part documentary series, Wagner's Ring: A Tale Told In Music, examining Der Ring des Nibelungen (See here for more details) As a follow-up to that you can find below a 30 minute interview given by Heath Lees and producer Dimity Reed for Radio New Zealand.
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