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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 […]
2023-08-25 08:13:00
Wagner: Tannhäuser - Le Gateau Chocolat - Bayreuth Festival (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath)Wagner: Tannhäuser; Jens-Erik Aasbø, Markus Eiche, Günther Groissböck, Julia Grüter, Ekaterina Gubanova, Siyabonga Maqungo, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton, Olafur Sigurdarson, Elisabeth Teige, Klaus Florian Vogt; dir: Tobias Kratzer; cond: Nathalie Stutzmann; Bayreuth Festival Reviewed by Tony Cooper, 23 August 2023Katharina Wagner puts in a Hitchcock-style appearance in this compelling and telling production of Tannhäuser. This current production of Tannhäuser by Tobias Kratzer (which, incidentally, received its première in Dresden on 19th October 1845) chalks up the opera’s ninth staging at the Bayreuth Festival and was first seen in 2019. It’s now making its final bow following a four-year tenure on the Grüner Hügel. Surprisingly, no other work in the Wagner canon has received such few productions. By the way, Kratzer made his Bayreuth début with this production which, I feel, has lost none of its shine or momentum since I attended its […]
2023-08-17 11:40:00
Bayreuth Festival (3) - Tannhäuser, 16 August 2023
Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, 16.8.2023 (MB) Hermann, Landgrave of Thuringia - Günter Groissböck Tannhäuser - Klaus Florian Vogt Wolfram von Eschenbach - Markus Eiche Walther von der Vogelweide - Siyabonga Maqungo Biterolf - Olafur Sigurdarson Heinrich der Schreiber - Jorge Rodriguez-Norton Reinmar von Zweter - Jens-Erik Aasbø Elisabeth - Elisabeth Teige Venus - Ekaterina Gubanova Young Shepherd - Julia Grüter Le Gateau Chocolat - Le Gateau Chocolat Oskar - Manni Laudenbach Pages - Cornelia Heil, Ekaterina Gubanova, Laura Margaret Smith, Karolin ZeinertTobias Kratzer (director)Rainer Sellmaier (designs)Manuel Braun (video)Reinhard Traub (lighting)Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy)Bayreuth Festival Chorus (chorus director: Eberhard Friedrich)Bayreuth Festival OrchestraNathalie Stutzmann (conductor) For my third and final Bayreuth performance this year, I revisited an old friend, Tobias Kratzer’s Tannhäuser. New when we met in 2019, it has weathered the pandemic storm and since assumed something close to classic status. Not that, like any of us during that or indeed any other four-year […]
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 […]
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