Fjord model T Fjord model T

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.

Assault and battery Assault and battery

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.

Haus of eternal return 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.

Geschmack ist king 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.

Götterdämmerung Götterdämmerung

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

Der fliegende Holländer Der fliegende Holländer

Oksana Lyniv conducts Michael Volle, Elisabeth Teige, Georg Zeppenfeld, Eric Cutler, Nadine Weissmann, and Matthew Newlin in a live broadcast from Bayreuth

Siegfried Siegfried

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

Die Walküre Die Walküre

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

Das Rheingold Das Rheingold

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

Tannhäuser Tannhäuser

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

Tristan und Isolde Tristan und Isolde

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

Parsifal Parsifal

Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Andreas Schager, Georg Zeppenfeld, Elina Garanca, Derek Welton, and Jordan Shanahan in a recording from this summer’s Bayreuth Festival.

Das Rheingold Das Rheingold

A live broadcast as the Bayreuth Festival launches a new Ring cycle.

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

From the 2017 Bayreuth Festival, Barrie Kosky’s Die Meistersinger, conducted by Philippe Jordan.

Was ist’s mit den ewigen Göttern? Was ist’s mit den ewigen Göttern?

Christine Goerke‘s Bayreuth debut has been canceled.

No questions asked No questions asked

Anna Netrebko has canceled her Bayreuth debut this summer.

Broadcast: Tristan und Isolde Broadcast: Tristan und Isolde

The live performance from Bayreuth begins at 10:00 AM.

Broadcast: Parsifal Broadcast: Parsifal

Live from the Bayreuth Festival.

“Dein brennend Haupt umwehe Kühle” “Dein brennend Haupt umwehe Kühle”

The burn here surely is the Publikum’s applause.

Broadcast: Lohengrin Broadcast: Lohengrin

Live from the Bayreuth festival, beginning at 10:00 AM.

Broadcast: Tannhäuser Broadcast: Tannhäuser

The opening of the 2019 Bayreuth season.

It’s the Minnesinger not the song It’s the Minnesinger not the song

Tannhäuser pales beside the other great Wagnerian operas in the degree to which it has innovated the Regisseur’s vocabulary for set design and dramaturgy.

Venusberg in furs Venusberg in furs

Le Gateau Chocolat will make his Bayreuth Festival debut in a new production of Tannhäuser on July 25.

The 2018 Bayreuth Festival continues with Die Walküre, with a live broadcast starting at 10:00 AM EDT.