Half-opera, half-play, Wagner Dream is a beguiling, perplexing work

Distant Wagnerian harmonies are fractured, splayed and reimagined as through an aural prism

Let down by an inadequate text

Outmoded old hippie stuff

Harvey’s Buddhist opera shackles a slowly building luminous score to a clunky libretto

Banal libretto lets down Harvey’s Wagner Dream

Jean-Claude Carrière's libretto has moments of triteness

The vocal writing is simple and direct