Brnnhilde Irne Theorin (Schwarzwlder Bote), Schnitzeljagd fr Wagner-Nerds: Der schreckliche Drache ist ein todkranker, uralter Mann. Bampton Barbican Baroque at the Edge Bath Bayreuth Festival BBC BBC NOW BBCSSO BCMG Beethoven250 Berlin Birmingham Bolivia book review BREMF Brighton Bristol British Museum British Youth Opera Britten 100 Britten Sinfonia Brixton Brussels BSO Budapest Bury Court Opera . 31.8. Conductor: Andris Nelsons Le Gateau Chocolat (Kyle Patrick) Lyrical art highlights; Legends of Opera . Mime Arnold Bezuyen Recipient of the ETH-Wellcome Translational Full Scholarship (CAS ETH ELTV) . Ultimately, this was a magnificent performance where the production, the cast and the musicians were excellent and therefore were correspondingly lauded by Bayreuths passionate audience at the curtain call, something which was rarely seen at this years festival. The staging is mostly dynamic with the exception of the first scene which turned out to be quite still and slow. Monday, January 9, 2023 Alessandro nell'Indie and Bruno de S win Forum Opera readers' poll. Stream songs including "Parsifal: Vorspiel - Act 1 (Remastered 2023, Bayreuth 1962)", "Parsifal: He! As an audience member, one could certainly relate. Alexandra Steiner (Waldvogel), Andreas Schager (Siegfried), Arnold Bezuyen (Mime) and Branko Buchberger (Hagen) in Siegfried, in Valentin Schwarzs staging for Bayreuth. Like a child with an extremely limited attention span, Schwarz presents something, tires of it, presents a new thing without bothering to connect it to the previous thing, and continues. With neither ship nor sea, Dmitri Tcherniakovs new Bayreuth Festival staging recasts the opera as a tale of violent revenge (New York Times), At Bayreuth, it is Tcherniakovs Der fliegende Hollnder we see while Oksana Lyniv lets us hear Wagners (Jim Pritchard in Seen and Heard), Wagners "Hollnder" als Dorf-Thriller (BR-Klassik), At this years Bayreuth Festival, both cheers and jeers greet the new production of Wagners classic (Financial Times), Conductor Philippe Jordan and then stumbling back off again, was not the least embarrassing episode in a renewed, though hardly rejuvenated, string of scenic non sequiturs. In addition to "Parsifal," the 2023 festival will present "The Ring of the Nibelung," "Tristan and Isolde," "Tannhuser" and "The Flying Dutchman. Whatever the correct interpretation is of this new ending, it does not betray the original source or make the story confused. It is by any standards climactic. 11.8. In the cinema Reichshof. Andy Besuch (costumes) 28.7. It is the moment to which everything in the cycle has been leading, the moment when the tangled and dishonest world of the gods, in which the audience has been enmeshed across four operas and nearly 16 hours of music and drama, comes crashing down. Luis August Krawen, Bayreuth Festival Chorus (chorus master: Eberhard Friedrich) This role, along with Siegfried, are probably the longest and hardest roles for tenor ever written, and the American tenor sang both of them at this edition of Wagners festival which shows his tremendous stamina and vocal technique. They mostly sang in ensemble and their voices melded together beautifully, offering one great moment after another. Stage design Rainer Sellmaier It made for a long and dispiriting evening, though. Loiseau de feu de Stravinsky - Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. 31.7. International expert workshop on the digital health divide at the University of Bayreuth, Campus Kulmbach: Submit your Beliebt bei Petronela Sandulache. Olafur Sigurdarson was a fine and plausible Alberich. Ein junger Hirt Katharina Konradi (7/27, 8/2, 8/5), Alexandra Steiner ( Stephan Gould sang the role of Tristan. He imprinted a sense of power and vitality to the score. With no grandeur, reduced to the essential: to experience his works as a celebration. He led his first Vienna Philharmonic performance in 2000. Freia Elisabeth Teige Press Release Stuttgart, 25 February 2022. Solist Klaus Florian Vogt Opera is thriving. At the most exciting musical theatre festival in the world. Occasionally, some older things return, yet neither with dramatic reason nor insight. Tristan und Isolde A revampedversion of the opera cycle "The Ring of the Nibelung" is also eagerly awaited. 26.8. (Martin Kettle, The Guardian), Das Licht der Welt erblicken auch zwei Kinder, die wir im Vorspiel in einer Videoprojektion sehen, die sich wohl schon im Mutterleib spinnefeind sind Wotan und sein Schatten (C. G. Jung) Alberich. Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH (Keith Warner, The Guardian), "I have never come across an audience with so much hatred, so much anger, such a thirst for revenge. In the past, the museum director has often been asked whichcelebrities will be in attendance. No one would be happier than I to admit he was wrong if so. Foster displayed unbelievable stamina required for this role as she finished the performance with an incredibly moving interpretation of the Liebestod. Her voice was fresh and the breath support was intact. Knappe Alexandra Steiner It makes you a little bit scared, and it's really quite terrifying." At the most exciting musical theatre festival in the world. Johannes Brahms Symphonie Nr. Robe Up All Night with Black Coffee at Zamna Festival. Former German chancellor Angela Merkel arrives with husband Joachim Sauer for the opening of the annual Bayreuth Festival featuring the music of German composer Richard Wagner at the Festival Theatre. Today, the building is internationally famous for its excellent acoustics. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images August 2022, fr klassik-begeistert.de und klassik-begeistert.at), Tristan und Isolde conductors at Bayreuth, One of the finest monuments in sound ever to have been raised to the everlasting glory of music. 21.8. Opulentes Theater als Raum fr monumentale Barockopern, die es nicht in die blichen gegenwrtigen Spielplne schaffen und eine wachsende Fangemeinde haben. There was a foretaste last year at a multimedia "Ring" performance, which included a production of "The Valkyries" by Austrian action artist Hermann Nitsch. His timbre is completely even and balanced from low to high, presenting a clear, round sound. The quality of singing was episodic too. This button displays the currently selected search type. Ergibt sie was? (Photo: Enrico Nawrath, Bayreuter Festspiele). There is not much of a mystery, here, really, let alone inconsistency, though what form of power is of course open to speculation and interpretation. 2.8. "We are very happy to be virtually sold-out.". 25.8. He imbued his interpretation with power and vocal entity which in this production has to rely on vocal characterization as the staging does not help much. Those wanting to know more about Wagner's impact on popular culturecan visit the special exhibition, showing at the Richard Wagner Museum, on how the composerhas been appropriated to marketeverything frombeer toheavy metal music. Ekaterina Gubanova was a brilliant Brangne. The soprano seemed to be having unusually difficult times with the role anyway. Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy) The festspielhaus in Bayreuth is possibly the most unique opera house in the world. Berlin, Germany . Auerdem wird er sicherheitshalber noch erstochen und erstickt. Austrian director Valentin Schwarzs new Ring presents the bold and searing idea that the original sin that drives Wagners world of power is the abuse of children. And so it happens that you see the characters acting completely different from what they are singing; there is a complete detachment between their words and their actions. Audiences journey from around the world to Bayreuth to watch the Ring Cycle whenever it is staged; Wagners purpose-built theatre still has tremendous allure and mystique. Anyway, Grane goes with Siegfried into the world (actually, back to part of Fafners house, I think) to encounter a Gunther who slightly resembles Peter Stringfellow or even Jimmy Savile, but whose inspiration a German friend tells me is a trashy television series called Die Geissens eine schrecklich glamourse Familie. Instead of action and characters developed from the inside out, Schwab and stage designer Piero Viciguerra rely on the aesthetics of their scenery. Alexander Meier-Drzenbach on La bohme. Robe On The Road. How, asks Kuhn, did this nasty, this hairy and hideous imp beget a child with the proud Queen Grimhild? Perhaps using the power he has amassed by foreswearing love? In addition to "Tristan and Isolde" and the "Ring" series, the operas "Lohengrin" and "Tannhuser" will be performed in addition tolast year's "Flying Dutchman," conducted by Oksana Lyniv,the first femaleconductor at the Bayreuth Festival. (BR Klassik), Das Rheingold review no ring, no gold, instead child abuse and abduction drive Bayreuths new Ring. As the curtain fell, it triggered a fusillade of booing - along with cheering too. Gunther (Michael Kupfer-Radecky) and the vassals. Der erzhlt die Handlung der "Walkre" weiter als Familiensaga im Netflix-Stil. . Tomas Konieczny, who sang Wotan, fell on the set in the second act of Die Walkre and had to be replaced for the third act of that opera. News Completion Bayreuth Festival 2022! Eva Camilla Nylund 10.8. Wagner built the theatre at Bayreuth with shocking innovations at that time. This year he can confirmthat former Chancellor Angela Merkel will beshowing up. Above them on the stage, however, Irne Theorins Brnnhilde, who is supposed to be the agent of destruction and rebirth, was settling herself on the bottom of an empty and dirty swimming pool next to the dead body of her husband Siegfried, the remains of her mutilated horse in a plastic bag, and with no suggestion at all in Schwarzs staging that a moment of artistic significance had been reached. Christa Mayer, Okka von der Damerau, Olafin Sigundason Shine in Valentin Schwarzs Confused Productions. 20.8. Catherine Foster was a powerful Isolde. "That's why I already feel very comfortable and at home in the 'Ring' production," he said. 13.8. Knappe Simone Schrder The young, multi-award-winning Austrian director Valentin Schwarz compares the new four-part "Ring" cycle to a Netflix series: Asequence of several parts watched in quick succession. But Schwabs ending seems to posit for the immortality of love. Lea-Ann Dunbar, Stephanie Houtzeel and Katie Stevenson portrayed the three Rhinemaidens. (BR Klassik), Der Ring nimmt an Fahrt auf, was vor allem einer Reihe von exzellenten Snger:innen zu verdanken ist. Luis August Krawen (video), Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Georg . Alberich Olafur Sigurdarson But the days when Bayreuth could claim to set the worlds standards in Wagner production as it did in the late 19th century when the festival began, and then again after the second world war, when the composers grandson Wieland Wagner and successors Patrice Chreau and Harry Kupfer reconceived the works afresh, have gone. Andreas Schager was a wonderfully manic Siegfried, ringingly dauntless throughout his name opera. The high note sounded strained and unstable. Gurnemanz Georg Zeppenfeld Characterisation would help, to put it mildly, but so would a sense of the political and indeed the religiousof context whether broadly, specifically, or both (ideally). Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, 7-17 September 2023, Margravial Opera House, Bayreuth - Program "COVID has unfortunately also led to a loss of audience, many houses are noticing this with a sharp drop in subscribers as well," she told the German press agency dpa. In an abstract stage design, he had colors splashed against white walls. The opther three operas are delayed to 2022. Produkte. February 14, 2022 Its Austrian director Valentin Schwarz has been talking to the DPA: 'The fact that the "Ring" in Bayreuth is performed in its entirety within just one week gives us the. The new production of Ring des Nibelungen was eagerly awaited, as it had already been scheduled for 2020 and was performed three times this year as a cycle. After Tristan - A Journey from the Past Backwards into the Present. He received one of the greatest ovations of the night. The focus was on the two new productions of "Der Ring des Nibelungen" and "Tristan und Isolde". Review: A New Ring at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic. Bass Georg Zeppenfeld, who had appeared at Die Walkre as Hunding, sang the role of King Marke. In Bayreuth, even less is happening in a new production that director Roland Schwab took care of. But there is no magic in this production and the fight for the ring in scenes three and four is, to be blunt, ridiculous and confusing. The overture begins with a short motif that concludes in the famous Tristans chord. This is repeated three times in different keys with three silences in between. Wagner demands constant forte ascensions to A naturals at the most riveting emotional climaxes, such as the end of act one, the beginning of the love duet or the climax moments in Act three; in Goulds voice, they sounded underpowered. Der fliegende Hollnder Wellgunde Stephanie Houtzeel Her intervention is about 10 minutes long but she gained the recognition of the audience with her dark velvety sound, her mesmerizing legato singing, and her unlimited palette of vocal colors. Last year saw ascaled-down schedule and audience in Bayreuth, butfestival director Katharina Wagneris pleased to confirm areturn to full capacity in 2022. That the prologue and first act in particular dragged, often seeming to lie behind whatever notional basic tempo had been set, was nonetheless unfortunate as nonsense upon nonsense unfolded onstage. I am only too aware of precedents, of how, say, Patrice Chreaus first run met with uproar and incomprehension, proceeding to become perhaps the best loved (and esteemed) Ring of all time. Volume 14, Number 3 Fall 2000 LE TMOTUVE THE JOURNAL OF THE WAGNER SOCIETY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CONTROVERSY THY NAME IS WAGNER Can We Separate The Man From His Art? Not once did his voice tire; he committed himself with apparently equally enthusiasm to what was going on dramatically. Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 7 - 18 September 2022, Bayreuth, Germany Margravial Opera House Bayreuth Margravial Opera House Bayreuth Sun Temple of the Orangery in the Hermitage Carlo il Calvoat the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival Falk von Traubenberg Margravial Opera House Bayreuth Margravial Opera House Bayreuth Wolfram von Eschenbach Markus Eiche It is true that their roles are very short and delegated to a few spare lines, but the baritone lacked the vocal power to sing heroic line likeHe da, He da, he do which turned out to be tedious and uninteresting. Opera is thriving. Hagen (Albert Dohmen). 1. Valentin Schwarzs production of the four-opera epic presents human characters with relations even more tangled than usual. He possesses a lyrical instrument with modest volume but serious difficulties in the higher range (I always take into consideration that the singer might not be at his best on the night of the show) as shown in his opening line Vollender das ewige werk. Here, he had to take an extra short breath to prepare the high F, breaking the fluidity of the line. 18.8. Veit Pogner Georg Zeppenfeld (Patrick Carnegy to The Guardian). But Corona cast long shadows over Bayreuth's sweltering heat this year. Bayreuth, Bayern, Deutschland Lehrauftrag "Choreografische Praxis" Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultt, Universitt Bayreuth . The firstis a new production of Wagner's romantic drama, "Tristan and Isolde." German sagas form the basis for Wagner's "Ring." What Now? The set is a big oval chamber with an open oval on the ceiling and a central oval on the floor.Through the open ceiling we bear witness to projections of weather changes, depending on the action of the opera. Grane is later beaten to something not a million miles from horsemeat. Bayreuth Festival Bayreuth 2022: Das Rheingold (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) Bayreuth 2022: Die Walkre (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) Bayreuth 2022: Siegfried (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) Bayreuth 2022: Gtterdmmerung (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) As these final pages were reached in Valentin Schwarzs new Ring cycle at the Bayreuth festival, the conductor Cornelius Meister and the festival orchestra, in the concealed Bayreuth pit, were playing out of their skins as the score demanded. His ability to color the vocal line and sing dynamics created memorable moments during such passages as so verfluchich die liebe, the horad scene, or the curse. He offered a strong, believable characterization of the tortured, greedy dwarf even if the staging was quite still in the first scene or presented him in his underwear during the first part of the fourth scene. Insofar as one could avoid Schwarzs weird conception of Guntherwas he supposed to be high, or just very, very peculiar?the same could be said of Michael Kupfer-Radecky in that role. Wotan - Egils SilinsDonner - Raimund NolteFroh - Attilio GlaserLoge - Daniel KirchFricka - Christa MayerFreia - Elisabeth TeigeErda - Okka von der DamerauAlb. Her sound widens as she rises to her higher range, something that was first noticeable as she delivered two thunderous big B naturals during her long Act one scene Von einem kahn. We heard this intense roundness again when she delivered two high Cs when the lovers are reunited in Act two. In fact, the end of the opera, with this elderly couple holding each other at the very front of the stage as the curtain falls, provides a unique and alternate reading to Wagners poem. 2. With no grandeur, reduced to the essential: to experience his works as a celebration. Valentin Schwarzs Ring ends more or less where it began, bar curtain-calls in which the long-awaited appearance of Schwarz and his team was greeted by the most intensive booing I have ever heard. In the cinema Reichshof. Die Walkre Walkrenritt Die Walkre Abschied und Feuerzauber (Gnther Groissbck) Was erzhlt Wagner, was erzhlt Schwarz, was ergibt die Differenz. We are delighted to announce that Max Emanuel Cenic's production of Leonardo Vinci's Alessandro nell'Indie, which premiered at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival in September 2022, has been voted "Best Opera Production of the Year" by the readers of the renowned French opera magazine . But when the Bayreuth Festival Theater opened in 1876, with the premiere of his full "Ring of the Nibelung" a four-opera, 15 . (Benjamin Britten to Alan Blyth, Gramophone), "I was bowled over. Catherine Foster Shines in Roland Schwabs Beautiful Production. 5.8. 25.7.2021 performance and streamed (directed by Andy Sommer) for a limited time on DG Stage. Juli 2022 um 20:25 Uhr bearbeitet. Andrea Cozzi (designs) For those new to Wagner, the museum has also recently begun offering special tours on performance days under the theme "Festival for Beginners. There is no magic helmet either, therefore no invisibility or transformation into giant snakes or small toads. Bayreuth Festival Tickets 2023 Buy Now Since the Bayreuth Festival reopened in 1951, Bayreuth Festival tickets have sold out year after year. 2022 2 Monate. Berlin, Deutschland . Kunz Vogelgesang Tansel Akzeybek These bare stagings, where everything was done with lighting. He has written widely on intellectual, cultural, and musical history from the later seventeenth century to the present day. The hall capacity will be 1925 seats. The festival's latest take on Wagner's"Ring" cycle was supposed to be staged in 2020, but had to be postponed due to COVID. He hid the orchestra under the stage to find a better communion between the audience and the stage without the barrier of the orchestra. But whats most fascinating is that most characters cant step on it or cross the floor screen; in fact only Tristan and Isolde stay on it. Tenor Daniel Kirch sang the role of Loge. Her characterization was intense but believable and she deftly portrayed all the extreme feelings Isolde goes through, from anger and revenge to unconditional love and ecstasy. If we take into consideration that the theatre at Bayreuth has no subtitles at all, people who are unfamiliar with these operas would be completely lost or get a complete different idea from Wagners poem. In the cinema Reichshof. They take everything personally. Meister created great moments of tension, such as during the crescendo of the prelude, where he kept increasing the depth and density of the sound while keeping an impossibly slow tempo. Director Barrie Kosky Herzlich willkommen auf der offiziellen Facebook-Seite der Bayreuther. The music, in short, was saying everything, but the staging, an empty pool full of junk, nothing. 27.7. 19.8. How much, if at all, violence towards women should be depicted on stage (or screen), especially by men, is of course very much a live topic at the moment. Hans svenska operadebut var i rollen som greven i Figaros brllop p Gteborgsoperan r 1994 och hans internationella operadebut kom r 1996 i titelrollen i Eugne Onegin vid Spoleto-festivalen (Festival dei Due Mondi) i Italien, med regissren och . (Christian Wildhagen, Neue Zrcher Zeitung), Intellektuell und sinnlich erweist sich der neue Bayreuther Ring schlielich als das Fiasko, an das man zuvor drei Abende lang trotzdem nicht glauben konnte. (Keith Warner, The Guardian), "I have never come across an audience with so much hatred, so much anger, such a thirst for revenge. Its also completely comprehensible, something rarely common nowadays in the world of Regietheater. She too has been subjected to pretty horrific, all too casual abuse, seemingly to no end other than as something else to do (and not in a Clockwork Orange sort of way either).