Valentin Schwarz‘s and Simone Young‘s Ring, in its final outing at Bayreuth, is dramaturgically messy and musically excellent.
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The final installment of the 2025 Ring from Bayreuth
Matthias Davids‘s reactionary new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg might be fun, but no one comes to Bayreuth for fun.
A slightly delayed broadcast of the second installment of this year’s Ring from Bayreuth
A live broadcast of the first installment of this summer’s Ring from Bayreuth
A live broadcast of the opening of the 2025 Bayreuth Festival
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 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
A live broadcast as the Bayreuth Festival launches a new Ring cycle.
From the 2017 Bayreuth Festival, Barrie Kosky’s Die Meistersinger, conducted by Philippe Jordan.
Christine Goerke‘s Bayreuth debut has been canceled.
