★★★☆☆
With people worried about opera houses turning into museums, constantly displaying the same old repertoire, I would think twice about actually setting an opera in a museum. Stephen Medcalf, the director of Grange Park Opera’s new Wagner production, is clearly made of bolder stuff.
His staging is set amid the display cases and Casper Friedrich-like landscapes of a 19th-century museum, so gloomily lit that you fear the twilight of the gods has come a couple of operas too early. Peer into the cases and you notice among the exhibits pretty well all the props needed for The Ring — from the magic sword Nothung and the World Ash Tree (a bit wobbly when Brünnhilde tries to hug it) to Siegfried’s hunting horn and, of