Wouldn't work for me. Judged as concert music and not as opera, Wagner at full length is flaccid and meandering far beyond my tolerance. I have to wait for one of the tighter and more interesting "bleeding chunks" to come up, and when it does, there's these annoying and distracting people trying to sing (or, if it's the Ride of the Valkyries, shout) over it. Even if I can't see them, I can still hear them.

If anybody could pull it off, though, it would be Haitink. I love his Bruckner ...