Posts Tagged ‘bayreuth festival’
Tuesday, September 1st, 2015
By: Frank Cadenhead The Austrian newspaper, Der Kurier, let drop a great deal of information about what to expect in the future for the Bayreuth Festival. The new Ring in 2020, to the surprise of many, will not be conducted by the new Music Director of the festival, Christian Thielemann, but rather the Boston Symphony’s […]
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Tags: Alvis Hermanis, Andreas Schager, Andris Nelsons, anna netrebko, barrie kosky, bayreuth festival, Berlin Philharmonic, Christian Thielemann, Christine Goerke, Dimitri Tcherniakov, Frank Castorf, Grace Bumbry, Kirill Petrenko, Klaus Florian Vogt, Michael Volle, richard wagner, Roberto Alagna, Simon Rattle, Tobias Kratzer, Uwe Eric Laufenberg, Wieland Wagner
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
By Frank Cadenhead The book isn’t next to me in my hotel room at Bayreuth, but otherwise it is always within arm’s reach. Nicolas Slonimsky’s Lexicon of Musical Invective, an illuminating collection of music criticism at its worse, is a vast parade of bonehead reviews of the great classics. It is an obvious reminder that […]
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Tags: bayreuth festival, Frank Castorf, richard wagner
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Friday, May 17th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid The tolerance of German audiences for extreme stage productions is a source of national pride and the envy of many abroad. But a production of Tannhäuser at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein which had to be stripped down to concert performance last week has set off a national debate about the sanctity […]
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Tags: Akademie der Künste, bayreuth festival, Burkhard C. Kosminski, Cicero, Der Spiegel, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, Hitler, Holocaust, Klaus Staeck, musical america, Patrice Chéreau, Rebecca Schmid, richard wagner, Sebastian Baumgartner, stefan herheim, Tannhäuser, World War Two
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Friday, August 31st, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid „Kinder, schaff Neues,“ (Children, create something new) Wagner wrote in an adage frequently quoted by stage directors in Germany. In Bayreuth, 136 years after the founding of his festival, the spirit is alive and well. Provocatively-minded Regietheater, for lack of a better blanket term, has come to stamp the recently installed administration […]
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Tags: bayreuth festival, Burkhard Fritz, Camilla Nylund, Christian Marthaler, Christian Thielemann, Irène Theorin, katharina wagner, Kwangchul Youn, Michael Nagy, Michele Breedt, Peter Schneider, Philippe Jordan, Robert Dean Smith, Sebastian Baumgarten, stefan herheim, Susan Maclean, Torsten Kerl, Wolfgang Wagner
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Friday, August 24th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The Bayreuth Festival has had its share of scandal to contend with as Wagner’s bicentenary approaches next season. An international investigation into exclusive ticketing practices; the publicized struggle to find the director for a new Ring cycle; administrative policies that have reportedly shortened rehearsal time; widely reviled productions; and—most recently—the last-minute withdrawal […]
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Tags: bayreuth festival, Berlin, berliner volksbühne, Christa Mayer, Christian Thielemann, Deutsche Oper, Eva Pasquier-, flying dutchman, Frank Castorf, german theatre, jan philipp, katharina wagner
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