The 2018 Bayreuth Festival continues with Der Fliegende Holländer.
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The 2018 Bayreuth Festival continues with Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , with a live broadcast starting at 10:00 AM EDT.
The 2018 Bayreuth Festival continues with Tristan und Isolde, with a live broadcast starting at 10:00 AM EDT.
The 2018 Bayreuth Festival continues with Parisfal, with a live broadcast starting at 10:00 AM EDT.
The 2018 Bayreuth Festival opens today with Lohengrin, directed by Yuval Sharon, with a live broadcast starting at 10:00 AM EDT.
According to a scan posted on Anna Netrebko‘s Instagram, the diva has received a contract from the Bayreuth Festival.
Meet Andreas Rosar, assistant director and hero/heroine of the 2017 Bayreuth Festival.
Let’s listen, cher public, to Siegfried, live from the Bayreuth Festival, starting at 10:00 AM.
The Bayreuth Ring (and perhaps the parterre discussion?) continues at 10:00 AM.
Today’s conversation piece from Bayreuth: a revival of Tristan und Isolde with Stephen Gould and Petra Lang conducted by Christian Thielemann.
The cher public are invited to hear and comment upon the opening performance of the 2017 Bayreuth Festspiele, featuring a new production of Meistersinger directed by Barrie Kosky. Broadcasts from various sources begin between 9:45 and 10:00 AM EDT. (These daytime Bayreuth listening parties continue into next week.)
Chat about live broadcasts from this year’s Bayreuth Festival.
Live recordings of Hans Knappertsbusch conducting Parsifal seem to proliferate like stairways in M.C. Escher prints.
The production by Sebastian Baumgarten is the type of regietheater that’s not a rethinking or reconstruction, but just a hot mess.
There is no snow in Bayreuth. There is no rain in Oberfranken.
In an unprecedented move, the Bayreuth Festival has named conductor Christian Thielemann official “Music Director.”
The Bayreuth Festival has decided to walk away from a new Parsifal production directed by Jonathan Meese for 2016 because the budget has spiraled out of control. Andris Nelsons is still on board to conduct.
Maestro Christian Thielemann has made his choice for Lohengrin casting in Dresden and, later, Bayreuth: “Anna Netrebko als Elsa und Piotr Beczala in der Titelpartie.”
Meet Tobias Kratzer (left) who is scheduled to direct Tannhäuser for Bayreuth in 2019.
Oddly enough, Eva Marton‘s interpretation of the Kostelnicka (pictured) goes unmentioned in Issue #38.
Our Own JJ has been thinking about Bayreuth some more, this time in the pages of Musical America.
If Frank Castorf‘s work on Der Ring des Nibelungen at Bayreuth accomplishes nothing else, it should serve as a sort of loud disorganized reminder of the dangers of indulging in the intentional fallacy.
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