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2023-08-30 06:28:00
Wagner: Die Walkure - Act Three - Claire Barnett-Jones, Elisabeth Teige, Catherine Foster, Christa Mayer, Stephanie Houtzeel - Bayreuth Festival 2023 (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath)Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen; Aile Asszonyi, Hailey Clark, Okka von der Damerau, Markus Eiche, Catherine Foster, Mika Kares, Daniel Kirch, Daniela Köhler, Tomasz Konieczny, Christa Mayer, Andreas Schager, Olafur Sigurdarson, Elisabeth Teige, Klaus Florian Vogt, Georg Zeppenfeld, dir: Valentin Schwarz; cond: Pietari Inkinen; Bayreuth Festival. Reviewed by Tony Cooper, 28 August 2023Finnish-born conductor, Pietari Inkinen, proudly walked the Grüner Hügel this year to conduct the complete Ring following his 2021 festival début with Die Walküre. Austrian stage director, Valentin Schwarz - who came to prominence in tandem with set designer Andrea Cozzi after winning the 2017 Ring Award - made his Bayreuth Festival début with this Ring cycle last year which received a mixed reception although it’s faring much better this year, conducted by Pietari […]
2022-08-06 20:41:00
Bayreuth Festival (4): Götterdämmerung, 5 August 2022
FestspielhausSiegfried – Clay Hilley Gunther – Michael Kupfer-Radecky Alberich – Olafur Sigurdarson Hagen – Albert Dohmen Brünnhilde – Iréne Theorin Gutrune – Elisabeth Teige Waltraute – Christa Meyer First Norn – Okka von der Damerau Second Norn – Stéphanie Müther Third Norn – Kelly God Woglinde – Lee-an Dunbar Wellgunde – Stephanie Houtzeel Flosshilde – Katie Stevenson Grane – Igor Schwab Valentin Schwarz (director) Andrea Cozzi (designs) Andy Besuch (costumes) Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy) Reinhard Traub (lighting) Luis August Krawen (video)Bayreuth Festival Chorus (chorus master: Eberhard Friedrich)Bayreuth Festival OrchestraCornelius Meister (conductor) Valentin Schwarz’s 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. I suppose a ‘cyclical’ turn will appeal to some who insist on referring to the Ring as a ‘cycle’, when it is nothing of the sort. Even […]
2022-08-04 17:19:00
Bayreuth Festival (3) - Siegfried, 3 August 2022
FestspielhausSiegfried – Andreas Schager Mime – Arnold Bezuyen Wanderer – Tomasz Koniezcny Alberich – Olafur Sigurdarson Fafner – Wilhelm Schwinghammer Erda – Okka von der Damerau Brünnhilde – Daniela Köhler Woodbird – Alexandra Steiner Young Hagen – Branko Buchberger Grane – Igor Schwab Valentin Schwarz (director) Andrea Cozzi (designs) Andy Besuch (costumes) Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy) Reinhard Traub (lighting)Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Cornelius Meister (conductor) This Siegfried made for pretty miserable music drama, I am afraid, the considerable qualities of the music ‘half’ notwithstanding. In a peculiar way, Wagner’s vision was vindicated. His works are not operas, nor are they intended to be. They may well impress in concert performances or in audio-only experiences at home—phenomena worthy of greater attention—but they need to impress musically and dramatically in the theatre, the whole so much more than the sum of its parts. One never knows what might be pulled out of […]
2022-08-01 11:45:00
Festspielhaus Wotan – Egils Silins Donner – Raimund Nolte Froh – Attilio Glaser Loge – Daniel Kirch Fricka – Christa Mayer Freia – Elisabeth Teige Erda – Okka von der Damerau Alberich – Olafur Sigurdarson Mime – Arnold Bezuyen Fasolt – Jens-Erik Aasbø Fafner – Wilhelm Schwinghammer Woglinde – Lea-ann Dunbar Wellgunde – Stephanie HoutzeelFlosshilde – Katie Stevenson Valentin Schwarz (director) Andrea Cozzi (designs) Andy Besuch (costumes) Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy) Reinhard Traub (lighting) Luis August Krawen (video) Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Cornelius Meister (conductor) In der Erde Tiefe tagen die Nibelungen: Nibelheim ist ihr Land. Schwarzalben sind sie; Schwarz Alberich hütet’ als Herrscher sie einst!So begins the Wanderer’s answer to the first of Mime’s three riddles, in which notoriously the dwarf asks his unwelcome visitor questions he hopes will catch him out—they do not—thereby wasting the opportunity to ask the chief of the gods what he, Mime, actually needs to know. Mime […]
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