Dmitri Tcherniakov’s interpretation of Wagner’s Der Fliegende Höllander presents an engrossing character study about Senta and the Dutchman’s struggles against their insular community’s stifling conformism.
Jay Scheib’s Augmented-Reality Parsifal is a cautionary reminder that technological innovation shouldn’t absolve directors from the exacting work of deriving intelligent and fascinating theater from the source material.
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.
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.
Simone Young leads the final 2024 Bayreuth Ring broadcast with Klaus Florian Vogt, Olafur Sigurdarson, Catherine Foster, Michael Kupfer-Radecky, Mika Kares, and Gabriela Scherer
Oksana Lyniv conducts Michael Volle, Elisabeth Teige, Georg Zeppenfeld, Eric Cutler, Nadine Weissmann, and Matthew Newlin in a live broadcast from Bayreuth
Simone Young leads Florian Vogt, Tomasz Konieczny, Olafur Sigurdarson, Catherine Foster, Okka von der Damerau, and Slávka Zámecniková in a broadcast of this year’s Bayreuth Ring
Simone Young is back at it with Michael Spyres, Vida Mikneviciute, Tomasz Konieczny, Catherine Foster, Georg Zeppenfeld, and Christa Mayer in a slightly delayed broadcast from Bayreuth
Simone Young conducts Tomasz Konieczny, Olafur Sigurdarson, John Daszak, Christa Mayer, Christina Nilsson, Okka von der Damerau, and Ya-Chung Huang in a live broadcast from the 2024 Bayreuther Festpiele
The 2024 Bayreuther Festpiele continues with Nathalie Stutzman conducting Klaus Florian Vogt, Günther Groissböck, Elisabeth Teige, Irene Roberts, Markus Eiche, and Siyabonga Maqungo in a slightly delayed broadcast from the Grünen Hügel
Semyon Bychkov conducts the opening performance of the 2024 Bayreuther Festpiele with Andreas Schager, Camilla Nylund, Günther Groissböck, Christa Mayer, Olafur Sigurdarson, and Birger Radde
Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Andreas Schager, Georg Zeppenfeld, Elina Garanca, Derek Welton, and Jordan Shanahan in a recording from this summer’s Bayreuth Festival.
A live broadcast as the Bayreuth Festival launches a new Ring cycle.