Posts Tagged ‘parsifal’
Thursday, October 24th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid Whether Parsifal is a supremacist scripture or a mystic journey, we are used to seeing at least one appearance of the Holy Grail or Spear. Wagner, a man of the theater as much as a composer, left clear indications in his libretto about when and how these objects should be deployed in […]
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Tags: Agnieszka Zwierko, Gabriel Chmura, Henrik Vibskov, Hotel Pro Forma, Jerzy Mechliński, Jesper Kongshaug, Kirsten Dehlholm, Krzystof Bączyk, Mark Morouse, parsifal, Poznán Opera, Thomas Mohr, wagner
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Swings, Mimes and Flying Meteors: Parsifal in Poznán
Friday, February 1st, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid Richard Wagner has managed to slowly dominate the scene internationally in recent seasons, but with the official arrival of his bicentenary, the saturation in Germany has only begun. Nürnberg, Leipzig, Munich and Dresden have unveiled new exhibits; in the latter’s case, an entire new building. A stream of publications has hit the […]
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Tags: Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Die Zeit, Enno Poppe, Erhard Grosskopf, Giuseppe Verdi, Giuseppina Strepponi, Jürg Stenzl, Klaus Zehelein, La Scala, Manos Tsangaris, Mauricio Kagel, Nabucco, Nike Wagner, parsifal, Rebecca Schmid, richard wagner, Rigoletto, robert lepage, Schnebel, Simon Rattle, Star Wars, Tristan
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Après lui, le déluge…reflections on Wagner at the Akademie der Künste
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
By James Jorden The Staatsoper Stuttgart may be called the cradle of Regietheater, or at least a cradle of Regietheater. Strong theatrical values have characterized this company from the opening of the theater in 1912 (the world premiere of Ariadne auf Naxos, helmed by megaregisseur Max Reinhardt) through the 1950s, when Wieland Wagner’s frequent projects […]
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Tags: calixto bieito, gesamtkunstwerk, journey of a thousand miles, leather trench coats, parsifal, realism, regie, revivals, richard wagner, staatsoper stuttgart, symbols
Posted in Rough and Regie | Comments Off on Regie in its natural habitat