Valentin Schwarz erntet fr seine wenig schlssige Neuinszenierung von Richard Wagners Ring des Nibelungen fast einhellige Ablehnung. Best of 2022: Opera A pocket 'Patience' sits alongside perfect Poulenc from Glyndebourne and concert Handel theartsdesk in Brno - a visionary at home in his 'Moravian Bayreuth . Stndig ist man am Rtseln und Entziffern. Clay Hilley, a very late substitute as Siegfried, did more than could reasonably be asked of him. Please check if you entered the email address correctly. Listen to Wagner: Parsifal by Hans Knappertsbusch by Hans Knappertsbusch, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Bayreuth Festival Chorus on Apple Music. Recipient of the ETH-Wellcome Translational Full Scholarship (CAS ETH ELTV) . Festspielhgel 1-2 Im Video wird die Es-Dur Ursuppe des Rheingold-Vorspiels zur Fruchtblase, in der sich zwei Babys friedlich schlafend wiegen. Frank Castorfs pretentious 2013-17 Bayreuth Ring. Cornelius Meister and Valentin Schwarz. The latter production was added to the schedule at short notice in order to remain playable in the event of conceivable outbreaks of infection in the collectives, and will be on the schedule again next year. Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy) Get your tickets here! 1. (Mnchner Merkur), Das Rheingold in Bayreuth: Poolparty mit Kindesentfhrung. (. Action artist: Hermann Nitsch. Other highlights from the Bayreuth Festival 2021 on DG Stage include Frank Castorf's provocative production of Der Ring . Tristan und Isolde Third Norn Kelly God Georg Zeppenfeld an exemplary Hunding. Why should we care, if that is all there is? Der Beginn einer groen spannenden Sage? (Deutschlandfunk Kultur), Im Stil einer Netflix-Serie will der junge Regisseur Valentin Schwarz Wagners "Ring" in Bayreuth erzhlen: als Familiensaga, die in unserer Gegenwart spielt. Robe On Location. 31.7. 26.7. Seit das Markgrfliche Opernhaus fertig restauriert wurde, findet dort Ende August das Festival Bayreuth Baroque statt. There were some splendid passages too, but this was not a vintage night for Wagner musically. His timbre is completely even and balanced from low to high, presenting a clear, round sound. ESPRITE Racer 2 - TRANSFERABLE LED ENGINE. Her performance was rotund and strong, giving an emotional characterization. He overdarkens and rounds the sound which leads to him losing projection from the C upwards above the stave. 28.8. Heinrich der Schreiber Jorge Rodrguez-Norton 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. Gunther wears a sparkly top that asks Who the fuck is Grane? Quite, though one might ask that about anyone here, really. So many important questions, moreover, are treated similarly. Last year saw a scaled-down schedule and audience in Bayreuth, but festival director Katharina Wagner was pleased to confirm a return to full capacity in 2022. Casting. CD-Rezension: War and Faith - Krieg und Glaube" Werke von Andrea Gabrieli, Giorgio Mainiero, Clment Jannequin, Matthias Hermann The ring we see this year is actually supposed to premiere in 2020, unsurprisingly due to the corona pandemic. Find live music near you. But these perfect conditions for acoustics leave, on the other hand, the singers completely exposed and every mistake is noticeable. That said, Gould shined in lyrical sections such as O sinkhernieder, nacht der liebe or So starben wir in Act two and the calmer moments during his long scene in act three, where the vocal writing is central and demands legato singing. Donner Raimund Nolte The British soprano has a big, dark sound with a marked but stable vibrato. These bare stagings, where everything was done with lighting. The dark-haired boy we first saw in Das Rheingold shooting others with a water-pistol at the swimming pool seems in some sense to have become the gold, the ring, young Hagen, and nowoddly, having aged far faster than everyone elseold Hagen. 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. A girl, who may or may not be the same as one also marked out at the swimming pool, who in turn may or may not be the same as the one Erda a little later seemed keen to protect, seems at times to take on the mantle of the ring, although there is also from time to time a ring too (which, given generally dim lighting, most of us can barely see). The singers will be Christine Goerke, Gnther Groissbck and Klaus Florian Vogt. Nobody had done that on the stage before. Meister will then take over "Tristan und Isolde" in Bayreuth again in 2023. With no grandeur, reduced to the essential: to experience his works as a celebration. The Bayreuth Festival 2022 25.7. Her interpretation was chilling and full of pathos. ), Cornelius Meister. Sam Goodyear: Der Ring des Nibelungen (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) - Bayreuth Festival 2022, Review: Bayreuths First American Director Arrives With Lohengrin (, Wenn schon Licht, dann eine anstndige Hexenverbrennung (, Zwischen Schilf und Kraftwerk: "Lohengrin" bei den Bayreuther Festspielen (, "Es wird wirklich sehr viel rumgestanden" (, Article: Bayreuths First American Director Made Wagner a Feminist. 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. Solist Klaus Florian Vogt Connoisseurs, friends, skeptics they all come to the green hill every summer to explore his legacy, away from the great centres of culture. 24.8. 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. He effortlessly sang a strong high G in Act three upon realizing that Isolde is finally coming to Tristans side. There is, it seems, no getting around thatand it is unclear why Schwarz, Kuhn, and company are so determined to try. With an auditorium in which his music unfolds like in no other theatre in the world. Elisabeth Teiges Gutrune was not helped by the productionwho was?but was a convincing vocal performance. Stage design Rainer Sellmaier Further reviews may be found at http://boulezian.blogspot.com. On the opening day of the Richard Wagner Festival, temperatures in Bayreuth are well over 30 degrees. In the past, the museum director has often been asked whichcelebrities will be in attendance. Wagner's monumental Ring cycle isn't a. Valentin Schwarzs production of the four-opera epic presents human characters with relations even more tangled than usual. 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 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). 1.9. Froh Attilio Glaser Lohengrin Excerpts. Opulentes Theater als Raum fr monumentale Barockopern, die es nicht in die blichen gegenwrtigen Spielplne schaffen und eine wachsende Fangemeinde haben. (Photo: Enrico Nawrath, Bayreuter Festspiele), Siegfried Clay Hilley A theatre created for a single composer: the Bayreuth Festival Theatre. (Photo: Enrico Nawrath, Bayreuter Festspiele), Hagen (Albert Dohmen) and Gunther (Michael Kupfer-Radecky). Schwab manages to find a perfect balance between the story, which can be clearly understood and all the philosophical/metaphysical concepts that are a constant throughout the opera, creating moments that have a realistic natural approach (the first act until they drink the love potion or Markes monologue in Act two). 27.7. Der Ring des Nibelungen NYT Critic's Pick. 16.8. 2. Tristan - Stephen GouldMarke - Georg ZeppenfeldIsolde - Catherine FosterKurwenal - Markus EicheMelot - Olafur SigurdarsonBrangne - Ekaterina GubanovaEin Hir. Fasolt Jens-Erik Aasb There is no shame in that; many conductors, at the best of times, are more successful in some parts of the Ring than others. If the chorus was far from overwhelming in the Vassals Scene, perhaps Covid restrictions were still in play; it looked as well as sounded smaller than usual. Monday, January 9, 2023 Alessandro nell'Indie and Bruno de S win Forum Opera readers' poll. (JPr) Magdalene Christa Mayer Bayreuth Festival Tickets 2023 Buy Now Since the Bayreuth Festival reopened in 1951, Bayreuth Festival tickets have sold out year after year. They take everything personally. The opther three operas are delayed to 2022. Gunther (Michael Kupfer-Radecky) and the vassals. Recorded (directed by Michael Beyer) at the Bayreuther Festspielhaus on 5.8.2022 and now available on STAGE+ until 14.11.2047. Walther von Stolzing Klaus Florian Vogt Konrad Nachtigal Armin Kolarczyk divisive production of Der Ring des Nibelungen. The Rhinemaidens and Norns were all very good. Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, 7-17 September 2023, Margravial Opera House, Bayreuth - Program The festspielhaus in Bayreuth is possibly the most unique opera house in the world. In the cinema Reichshof. Conversely, Wilhelm Schwinghammer gave a strong interpretation of the short role of Fafner. 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). Construction work on the stage tower will be completed next year, and 6 wheelchair spaces and a passenger elevator will then be available in the tower on the right. TAFF Festspielnacht am Goldbergsee The orchestra, even at its loudest, never overpowers a singers voice even if the singers are whispering. Wir wnschen allen Beteiligten Toi Toi Toi! (Norddeutscher Rundfunk), Rheingold in Bayreuth Valentin Schwarz lsst Wagners Symbolik leiden: Dass da noch niemand draufgekommen ist: Gttervater Wotan und sein Kontrahent Alberich sind Zwillingsbrder. Berlin, Germany . 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. 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. (Matthias Lachenmann), In der Trash-TV-Sendung Die Geissens erlebt der Zuschauer das Leben einer reichen, wohlstandsverwahrlosten und prolligen Familie, was Valentin Schwarz nach dem ersten Aufzug der Gtterdmmerung zu urteilen zu seiner Ring-Inszenierung inspiriert hat. 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. Knappe Attilio Glaser 27.8. New on STAGE+ Opera Bayreuth's new Ring: Siegfried Valentin Schwarz 244 Min Opera Bayreuth's new Ring: Gtterdmmerung Valentin Schwarz 274 Min Opera Bayreuth's new Ring: Die Walkre Valentin Schwarz 234 Min Opera Bayreuth's new Ring: Das Rheingold Valentin Schwarz 154 Min Opera After Tristan A Journey from the Past Backwards into the Present. 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. Bayreuth Festival Orchestra It made for a long and dispiriting evening, though. After 29 performances in the Festspielhaus, the 110th Bayreuth Festival comes to a successful close today. Wotan Egils Silins Already for the thirteenth time, realized by BF Medien, the project Wagner for Children took place. But this isnt all that surprising. It was the year after Wieland Wagner had died; to be able to see his productions was a total knock-out. Moments like the aftermath of drinking the love potion or Tristans last Isolde before dying had the same effect. Alberichs alleged inability to father Hagenit is not entirely clear, writes dramaturge Konrad Kuhn in the programme, how he could have conceived a sonis at best problematical. The heat and drought have visibly affected him. An evening between Richard Wagner and Heiner Mller, exploring the path from TRISTAN UND ISOLDE to Heiner Mller's play QUARTETT, with texts by both authors and music by Wagner, arranged by Ingo Kerkhof and Gerhard Ahrens as part of the event series Diskurs Bayreuth of the Bayreuth Festival 2022 in the cinema Reichshof. Er hofft auf die anderen drei Teile. BUT, the problem is that such a realistic approach does not tell the story of the opera well, filling Wagners original libretto with contradictions to the point that the story being played onstage resembles nothing of the actual text. 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. He hid the orchestra under the stage to find a better communion between the audience and the stage without the barrier of the orchestra. Auch Klaus Florian Vogt kann begeistern, selbst wenn ihm die Partie eigentlich zu tief liegt. David Daniel Behle (Lance Ryan on the audiences at Bayreuth), "People sometimes complain that Wagner operas are too long, that they get stiff and sore about 10.30 because they have rushed in to hear one of his works straight from work and are not properly prepared for listening to his music. Finally, Schwab introduced his own concept of the stages of love in a human life by presenting a couple of children in the overture, a couple in their mid-30s for the second act and an elderly couple for the third act. Bei der Musik gibt es Hoffnung, aber die Arbeit muss jetzt erst richtig beginnen. As the curtain fell, it triggered a fusillade of booing - along with cheering too. 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. Ergibt sie was? After Tristan A Journey from the Past Backwards into the Present. 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.