Das Rheingold — is Simone Young, a conductor whose Wagnerian accolades include a recent Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival. From Thielemann, she has inherited a dream cast worthy of Bayreuth, a mecca ...

“For some of his more fringe critics, Francis is the Antichrist, sundering the church from within, playing with dogma, more pap and mush than rigorous orthodoxy, playing to his fans, weakening his ...