These bare stagings, where everything was done with lighting. A theatre created for a single composer: the Bayreuth Festival Theatre. Tannhuser Stephen Gould There is so much in these bloody pieces, all you can do is try to live up to them." Ekaterina Gubanova was a brilliant Brangne. Mezzo-soprano Christa Mayer sang the role of Fricka with her powerful dark sound and an astonishing low register. Bayreuther Festspiele 2022; Rheingold; Insz. 4.8. Originally scheduled for 2020, it arrived two years late due to the pandemic with a new conductor, Meister, drafted in at short notice after Pietari Inkinen contracted Covid. "We are very happy to be virtually sold-out.". Andrea Cozzi (designs) 1. Seit das Markgrfliche Opernhaus fertig restauriert wurde, findet dort Ende August das Festival Bayreuth Baroque statt. Mon 17 Jul 2023 Kulturinsel Whrmhle . Valentin Schwarz Martin Kettle Mon 1 Aug 2022 06.11 EDT Last modified on Mon 1 Aug 2022 06.14 EDT ho knew? Tristan und Isolde (Patrick Carnegy to The Guardian). Cornelius Meister, general music director of the Stuttgart State Opera, will now conduct the "Ring" in his place. Fafner Wilhelm Schwinghammer In Siegfried, the unwrapping of the tightly bandaged Brnnhilde was a striking take on Siegfrieds moment of female discovery. Mark Berry is Reader in Music History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and previously taught and lectured in History at the University of Cambridge. Does Fafner kill his brother Fasolt to keep the boy? (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. Casting. Siegfried The British soprano has a big, dark sound with a marked but stable vibrato. He effortlessly sang a strong high G in Act three upon realizing that Isolde is finally coming to Tristans side. Froh Attilio Glaser News Completion Bayreuth Festival 2022! 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. There is no magic helmet either, therefore no invisibility or transformation into giant snakes or small toads. Luis August Krawen, Bayreuth Festival Chorus (chorus master: Eberhard Friedrich) 2022/07/26. Alberichs Fluch auf die Liebe im Gegenzug frs Edelmetall - nur taucht es an diesem Abend gar nicht auf. 3. No one would be happier than I to admit he was wrong if so. Konrad Nachtigal Armin Kolarczyk Robe On The Road. (JPr) Hagens return right at the end, stumbling on to shout Zurck vom Ring (is he advising people to stay away from himself?) Opera is thriving. Gaby Reucher, Deutsche Welle 7/22/2022. Der fliegende Hollnder He has written widely on intellectual, cultural, and musical history from the later seventeenth century to the present day. 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. Boston, Massachusetts, United States . Tannhuser Intermission This year, hundreds of visitors experienced three enthusiastic performances of the commissioned work Nach Tristan in the Reichshof cinema with the great artists Dagmar Manzel and Sylvester Groth. Therefore his A flats and naturals sounded muffled and his vibrato became slow and unsteady. Sie werden von diesem abgehalfterten Western-Desperado entfhrt, auf dass er sie zusammenpferchen und umerziehen kann. (Photo: Enrico Nawrath, Bayreuter Festspiele), But poor Brnnhilde (seriously). (Schwarzwlder Bote), Schnitzeljagd fr Wagner-Nerds: Der schreckliche Drache ist ein todkranker, uralter Mann. (Claude Debussy on Parsifal), "The thing about Wagner is that there can be no true success in any production of his operas, only degrees of failure. Nobody had done that on the stage before. Ein Nachtwchter Gnther Groissbck, July 2021: 26 Instead of action and characters developed from the inside out, Schwab and stage designer Piero Viciguerra rely on the aesthetics of their scenery. Yuval Sharon. Christa Mayer, Okka von der Damerau, Olafin Sigundason Shine in Valentin Schwarzs Confused Productions. 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. After 29 performances in the Festspielhaus, the 110th Bayreuth Festival comes to a successful close today. 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 . 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. 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. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images 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. He will also co-edit the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Wagner's 'Ring'. Eingesprungen fr den an Corona erkrankten Dirigenten Pietari Inkinen ist Cornelius Meister. (Benjamin Britten to Alan Blyth, Gramophone), "I was bowled over. August 22, 2022 16:00:00. Lyrical art highlights; Legends of Opera . 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. The incidents will now be investigated.. Olafur Sigurdarson, Syabonga Maqungo,Raimund Nolte and Jorge Rodrguez-Norton were brilliant in their supportive short roles of Melot, Junger Seemann, Ein Steuermann and Ein Hirt, respectively. Alexander Meier-Drzenbach on La bohme. More than 50,000 spectators attended this year's Festival. Bayreuth festivalValentin Schwarzs new staging of Wagners epic has some thought-provoking moments, but few were sustainable and most were just distracting. 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). . Das Rheingold Siegfried Der Ring des Nibelungen NYT Critic's Pick. Irene Theorin as Brnnhilde. Tristan und Isolde If quality of diction came and went, there was much to appreciate in Irne Theorins Brnnhilde, who managed to maintain a considerable degree of dignity, events around here notwithstanding. 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. Es bietet Workshops und Meisterklassen fr Snger, Instrumentalmusiker, . 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. Festival Bayreuth Baroque 2022. Schlimmer als die Regie sei der Dirigent und die meisten Snger, sagt unser Kritiker. These bare stagings, where everything was done with lighting. Bayreuth Festival 2022 Review: Das Rheingold Christa Mayer, Okka von der Damerau, Olafin Sigundason Shine in Valentin Schwarz's Confused Productions By Mauricio Villa (Credit: Enrico Nawrath) Controversy was in full force as the second run of performances of the Bayreuth's "Ring des Nibelungen" kicked off on August 10. Of course, the heated atmosphere could also be symbolic of the current situation . Kirchs performance was agile, with depurated German diction, and unlimited variety of colors and dynamics. Opening the festival is the . Advertisement Those attending this. Andreas Schager was a wonderfully manic Siegfried, ringingly dauntless throughout his name opera. 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. August 07, 2022 When the curtain fell on the new production of Gtterdmmerung on Friday, it drew the worst storm of audience hostility that veteran Wagner watchers can recall. Waltraute did not suit Christa Mayer quite so much as Fricka, but there was little doubting the quality of verbal response. Woglinde Lee-an Dunbar 2,279 were here. A version of Lohengrin created especially for children was performed ten times with great success on rehearsal stage IV. The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, doubtless understandably, sounded at times tired. German sagas form the basis for Wagner's "Ring." The title roles are interpreted by Stephen Gould and Catherine Foster, the other . To list them is almost the only thing one can do, given such absence of the conceptual; but it quickly becomes tedious, so I shall try to remain (relatively) selective. 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. (Matthias Lachenmann), Bayreuther Festspiele: Ob dieser Ring zu retten ist, wissen die Gtter. In the libretto, Tristan and Isolda are only truly united when they die, as this is the only moment when they can be totally free and love each other without conditions. Gtterdmmerung Tannhuser 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. It enhances it. The Bayreuth Festival (German: Bayreuther Festspiele) is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of operas by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. Knappe Attilio Glaser Bayreuths audience is very reluctant to accept new interpretations of Wagners magnus opus; the now-iconic Boulez-Chereau centennial production from 1976 was a huge failure its first season, before becoming as revered as it is today. Oksana Lyniv maked history this summer as the first woman to ever Anders Larsson studerade vid Kungliga Musikhgskolan i Stockholm (Master och Diplom) ren 1990-1997.. Karrir. August 14, 2022 16:00:00. The light changed with the music, and the shadows and patterns seemed as archetypal as the music itself. The orchestra, even at its loudest, never overpowers a singers voice even if the singers are whispering.