Gunther Michael Kupfer-Radecky Per-Erik Skramstad - Wagneropera.net. Richard Wagner: visionary, utopian his heritage remains alive here. Elisabeth, Nichte des Landgrafen Lise Davidsen It had not helped that Theorin had just delivered an undistinguished account of the final scene of Gtterdmmerung, one of the cycles great vocal set pieces. Messen&Events. 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. She just has a few vocal appearances but her clean, strong ascensions to A naturals and B flats shown her vocal power, round sound, and astonishing projection. Ein Nachtwchter Gnther Groissbck, July 2021: 26 Die Walkre 31.7. Lohengrin Excerpts. There will also be a festival atmosphere at the outdoor theater. Alberichs Fluch auf die Liebe im Gegenzug frs Edelmetall - nur taucht es an diesem Abend gar nicht auf. But Corona cast long shadows over Bayreuth's sweltering heat this year. Meisters direction was fluent and competent without coming close to the excellence of Christian Thielemanns conducting of Lohengrin in the middle of the Ring week. As the curtain fell, it triggered a fusillade of booing - along with cheering too. If vocal performances did not always reach the heights, nor did they ever fall below a reasonable level. 4 e-moll op. Subversive: Die Walkre at Bayreuth festival. Valentin Schwarz Martin Kettle Mon 1 Aug 2022 06.11 EDT Last modified on Mon 1 Aug 2022 06.14 EDT ho knew? There is no shame in that; many conductors, at the best of times, are more successful in some parts of the Ring than others. These bare stagings, where everything was done with lighting. 2022 2 Monate. (Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times), In der Neuproduktion von Richard Wagners "Der Ring des Nibelungen" bei den Bayreuther Festspielen bringt Regisseur Valentin Schwarz das Epos feministisch auf Zack. Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, 7-17 September 2023, Margravial Opera House, Bayreuth - Program Wanda . The opther three operas are delayed to 2022. Kirchs performance was agile, with depurated German diction, and unlimited variety of colors and dynamics. 1.8. 90 (1883) *** Symphonie Nr. Luis August Krawen (video), Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Advertisement Those attending this. A new production of Wagner's "The Ring of the Nibelung" at the Bayreuth Festival was called off for now. 2022 16:00:00. Solist Klaus Florian Vogt " Gorgeous acoustics " Aug 2019 Great performance and great acoustics! 16.8. Meanwhile all the love scenes or Tristans suffering in Act three are staged with a symbolic theatrical language. The performances of the Walkre will be framed by commissioned works in various artistic genres that mirror, comment on, continue or re-experience all parts of the Ring des Nibelungen. What we are supposed to make of that girls disappearance during the final scene, or indeed anything much in a scene that sadly had many in the audience laughing at its sheer ineptitude, I have no idea. However, as I noted in my review of his Gtterdmmerung, he has lost volume and harmonics in his higher register. The Bayreuth Festival 2021 will be rounded off with two concerts under the musical direction of Andris Nelsons, the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. . Konrad Nachtigal Armin Kolarczyk He had actually been rehearsing "Tristan and Isolde" for this season with the Festival Orchestra; that will now be taken over by Markus Poschner, director of the Bruckner Orchestra in Linz. Whatever the correct interpretation is of this new ending, it does not betray the original source or make the story confused. Im not implying that the productions should be classical and represent faithfully all the actions of the story. On four discursive pilgrimage paths, which could be accessed by the audience with smartphones and headphones for the duration of the festival, the festival city was transformed into a theoretical site where artists and scholars explored the relationship between art and society, autonomy and the Gesamtkunstwerk with excerpts from conversations and thoughts by Chaya Czernowin, Ulrich Konrad, Gundula Kreuzer, Konrad Kuhn, Thomas Macho, Cornelius Meister, Herfried Mnkler, Isabel Mundry, Sergej Newski, Holger Noltze, Roland Schwab, Valentin Schwarz and Wolfgang Ullrich. The music, in short, was saying everything, but the staging, an empty pool full of junk, nothing. 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). Robe Up All Night with Black Coffee at Zamna Festival. 20.8. It was the year after Wieland Wagner had died; to be able to see his productions was a total knock-out. Instead, though, we end up with something that trivially disrupts the very parallelism the production seems to wish to construct between Wotan and Alberich, and arguably has more than a pinch of ableism to it. 2. Donner Raimund Nolte Die Neuproduktion Der Ring des Nibelungen" feiert seine Premiere in der Inszenierung von Valentin Schwarz und unter der musikalischen Leitung von @corn_iusmeister . Festspiel Open Air Utbildning. Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy) Unwillingnesslet us be charitableto carry though any coherent correspondence between objects, themes, even often characters, leaves us with an incoherence that does not register as an aesthetic challenge, but simply as a careless mess. (BR Klassik), Das Rheingold review no ring, no gold, instead child abuse and abduction drive Bayreuths new Ring. E-mail: editor@wagneropera.net. Concert with excerpts from Tannhuser, Rienzi and Tristan und Isolde. He led his first Vienna Philharmonic performance in 2000. Boos could be heard ringing out during the final curtain for the August 10 Rheingold, a clear indication about how they felt about Valentin Schwarzs new production. Markus Poscher offered an emotional reading of the score, giving special emphasis to the multiple crescendos and silences throughout. Ergibt sie was? Director Barrie Kosky 11.8. More than 50,000 spectators attended this years Festival. Their sound is precise and has a sense of perfection, polish, and passion at the same time. Does Fafner kill his brother Fasolt to keep the boy? He has written widely on intellectual, cultural, and musical history from the later seventeenth century to the present day. 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. Andy Besuch (costumes) Parsifal Excerpts. Alexander Meier-Drzenbach on La bohme. Christa Mayer, Okka von der Damerau, Olafin Sigundason Shine in Valentin Schwarzs Confused Productions. 2021 - Mrz 2022 6 Monate. Jens-ann Dunbar gave a timid interpretation of the giant Fasolt. Bayreuth concerts Bayreuth concerts. Der erzhlt die Handlung der "Walkre" weiter als Familiensaga im Netflix-Stil. Hagen Albert Dohmen The unfortunate image resembles Golden Girl Rose Nylund doing a turn as Salome on her way to collect midnight cheesecake, albeit with none of the fun or interest that might entail. And OperaWire came about as a desire to take in as much of it and allow the passionate fan base access to everything this wondrous art form has to offer on a daily basis. August 2022, fr klassik-begeistert.de und klassik-begeistert.at. 04.05.2022 In the midst of the Corona pandemic, a compendium of four small-format books found its way into the Research Institute for Music Theatre in Thurnau. 27.8. CD-Rezension: War and Faith - Krieg und Glaube" Werke von Andrea Gabrieli, Giorgio Mainiero, Clment Jannequin, Matthias Hermann 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. (Judith von Sternburg, Frankfurter Rundschau), Christian Thielemann bringt Bayreuth zurck, wo es musikalisch hingehrt! The only truly standout performance was Lise Davidsens Sieglinde, a performance for the ages. 07/22/2022 Several female employees at the Bayreuth classical music festival were allegedly groped, including festival director Katharina Wagner. In some ways the most successful staging of the cycle was act two of Gtterdmmerung, performed without fuss or distraction inside a simple white cube set that felt like a 20th-century throwback. They take everything personally. Today, the building is internationally famous for its excellent acoustics. Andy Besuch (costumes) Gunther leaves the carrier bag with pieces of his body by the pool for Brnnhilde in pink dressing gown eventually to pick up Granes head to sing to. (JPr) With an auditorium in which his music unfolds like in no other theatre in the world. In addition to "Parsifal," the 2023 festival will present "The Ring of the Nibelung," "Tristan and Isolde," "Tannhuser" and "The Flying Dutchman. 4. Oskar Manni Laudenbach. Mark your calendars! Frank Castorfs pretentious 2013-17 Bayreuth Ring. 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. Markus Eiches lyrical baritone was ideal for the role of Kurwenal. Bayreuth remains an extraordinary venue, its ambitious ability to mount a new cycle in a single season is remarkable, and the 150th anniversary Ring, to be mounted there in 2026, will doubtless be a global event. Things to Do in Bayreuth Festspielhaus Festspielhaus See all things to do Festspielhaus 4.5 275 #4 of 57 things to do in Bayreuth Operas Visit website Call Write a review What people are saying By law_doc89 " Wagner phile must " Aug 2022 The orchestra pit is under the stage. After 145 Years, Bayreuth Festival Has Its First Female Conductor! He sang the expansive lines of his long monologue Mir dies? with exquisite legato line; the recitative sections were delivered with an immaculate German diction, offering a sorrowful interpretation of the betrayed king. TAFF Festspielnacht am Goldbergsee Even Cornelius Meisters conducting, a solid highlight of the previous three evenings, proved more mixed here. Ein junger Hirt Katharina Konradi (7/27, 8/2, 8/5), Alexandra Steiner ( Broadcasts from the Bayreuth festival A production by Wolfgang Wagner (1970) Audio. Avant-garde pioneer artist Mary Bauermeister has died, Belgian court paves way for Iran prisoner swap treaty, Palestinians in occupied West Bank live with uncertainty, Thousands of migrants have died in South Texas. 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. While most productions are usually planned years in advance, director Roland Schwab was only commissioned to take on this a new production of Wagners masterpiece in December 2021, leaving the creative team seven months to design, present the project, build the production, and rehearse it. These bare stagings, where everything was done with lighting. 2022 - 2023. DE. Magdalene Christa Mayer Other highlights from the Bayreuth Festival 2021 on DG Stage include Frank Castorf's provocative production of Der Ring . Her interpretation was chilling and full of pathos. (Matthias Lachenmann), Bayreuther Festspiele: Ob dieser Ring zu retten ist, wissen die Gtter. The Norns, nightmarish looking creatures. and then stumbling back off again, was not the least embarrassing episode in a renewed, though hardly rejuvenated, string of scenic non sequiturs. Recorded (directed by Michael Beyer) at the Bayreuther Festspielhaus on 5.8.2022 and now available on STAGE+ until 14.11.2047. He is the author of Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner's Ring (2006) and After Wagner: Histories of Modernist Music Drama from 'Parsifal' to Nono (2014). Illuminating ideas were not followed through and in truth were not often sustainable. (Klnische Rundschau), Nach 25 Minuten kommt es in jedem Rheingold zum Schwur. Aug. 7, 2022. Allein schon (musik-)historisch hochinteressant, ist diese CD ein beeindruckendes Hrerlebnis und ffnet das Fenster in ein bewegtes, erschttertes 16. Okt. The ring we see this year is actually supposed to premiere in 2020, unsurprisingly due to the corona pandemic. Action artist: Hermann Nitsch. 2022 (683) December 2022 (43) November 2022 (58 ) October 2022 . Knappe Simone Schrder (Benjamin Britten to Alan Blyth, Gramophone), "I was bowled over. It added extraneous characters and details (such as unscripted children of various characters), while ignoring many of Wagners intentions (there was no ring, no spear, no dragon, an intermittent sword and a halfhearted attempt at a Tarnhelm). Verdi, Beethoven, Tchakovski. Siegfried 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. After 29 performances in the Festspielhaus, the 110th Bayreuth Festival comes to a successful close today. August 2021: 1, 8, 12, 17, 24, Conductor Axel Kober But the tremendously difficult task of a stage director is to find solutions to the scenes, not to ignore them, and create a parallel dramaturgy. (Photo: Enrico Nawrath, Bayreuter Festspiele). Conversely, Wilhelm Schwinghammer gave a strong interpretation of the short role of Fafner. Opera is thriving. (Photo: Enrico Nawrath, Bayreuter Festspiele), Das Rheingold (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) - Bayreuth Festival 2022, Die Walkre (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) - Bayreuth Festival 2022, Siegfried (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) - Bayreuth Festival 2022, Gtterdmmerung (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) - Bayreuth Festival 2022, Sam Goodyear: Der Ring des Nibelungen (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) - Bayreuth Festival 2022, 25.7. 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. Most of the various Wotans (there were three) were adequate rather than notable. Concert with excerpts from Tannhuser, Rienzi and Tristan und Isolde. 98 (1884-1885) Wiener Symphoniker 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. Schwarzs idea, in Rheingold, that the cycles foundational sin was the seizure of a child, not of the gold from which a ring of power would be created, was challenging in the best sense. The audience, as much as the artists, must be prepared for a performance." Fortunately, he has conducted the "Ring" many times before. Bei der Musik gibt es Hoffnung, aber die Arbeit muss jetzt erst richtig beginnen. 30.8. There may be no definitive answer, yet it is hardly a question simply to be ignored or, worse, trivialised. Augustin Moser Ric Furman Georg . On the opening day of the Richard Wagner Festival, temperatures in Bayreuth are well over 30 degrees.