My mother was a close friend of the family. I saw the entire Ring at Bayreuth when I was 14. The staging was extraordinary, and even years ago was avant-garde by U.S. standard, but really worked.
re Tosca, Peter Gelb is the former headof Sony Classical, has no experience with opera performance, and no business being there.
(Not an opera (or even musical or play) fan.)
“Ring” is source of the classic rejoinder “It isn’t over until the fat lady sings,” correct?