Haus of eternal return
In Nike Wagner’s essay “The Sounding Silence,” the German dramaturge argues that “the longing for deathrepresents the central motif” of her great-grandfather’s opera Tristan und Isolde.
Olafur Sigurdarson
4 pieces since 2024 — in 4 roles, at 3 companies, most often at Bayreuth Festival.
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2 pieces as Bayreuth Festival — stats above show all coverage for Olafur Sigurdarson.
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Geschmack ist king
At the heart of Tobias Kratzer’s incisively rollicking production of Tannhäuser lies a metanarrative that maps Wagner’s early political and artistic challenges onto its hero’s philosophical struggles.