Okka von der Damerau sang the short but lucid role of Erda. He offered a strong characterization from the cynical and lively mariner in Act one to the hopeless friend in Act three. It is the moment to which everything in the cycle has been leading, the moment when the tangled and dishonest world of the gods, in which the audience has been enmeshed across four operas and nearly 16 hours of music and drama, comes crashing down. Dramaturgy Konrad Kuhn, Landgraf Hermann Gnther Groissbck He possesses a lyrical instrument with modest volume but serious difficulties in the higher range (I always take into consideration that the singer might not be at his best on the night of the show) as shown in his opening line Vollender das ewige werk. Here, he had to take an extra short breath to prepare the high F, breaking the fluidity of the line. Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 7 - 18 September 2022, Bayreuth, Germany Margravial Opera House Bayreuth Margravial Opera House Bayreuth Sun Temple of the Orangery in the Hermitage Carlo il Calvoat the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival Falk von Traubenberg Margravial Opera House Bayreuth Margravial Opera House Bayreuth Hans Sachs Michael Volle Lohengrin Eingesprungen fr den an Corona erkrankten Dirigenten Pietari Inkinen ist Cornelius Meister. Nathalie Stutzmann et Alexandre Tharaud. But the days when Bayreuth could claim to set the worlds standards in Wagner production as it did in the late 19th century when the festival began, and then again after the second world war, when the composers grandson Wieland Wagner and successors Patrice Chreau and Harry Kupfer reconceived the works afresh, have gone. Lohengrin Vorspiel But Schwabs ending seems to posit for the immortality of love. Bayreuther Festspiele 2022; Rheingold; Insz. It was the year after Wieland Wagner had died; to be able to see his productions was a total knock-out. 4.8. I thought it was extraordinary and wonderful." News Completion Bayreuth Festival 2022! (Claude Debussy on Parsifal), "The thing about Wagner is that there can be no true success in any production of his operas, only degrees of failure. 2022 saw the premieres of two new productions of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival in August and at Berlin's Staatsoper Unter den Linden in October. 18.8. Conductor: Andris Nelsons. Isolde finally steps back into it for the final Liebestod.. After two constricted pandemic years, the Bayreuth Festival is back with an unprecedented lineup of Wagner operas and full houses. E-mail: editor@wagneropera.net. Opera is thriving. Oskar Manni Laudenbach. New on STAGE+ Opera Bayreuth's new Ring: Siegfried Valentin Schwarz 244 Min Opera Bayreuth's new Ring: Gtterdmmerung Valentin Schwarz 274 Min Opera Bayreuth's new Ring: Die Walkre Valentin Schwarz 234 Min Opera Bayreuth's new Ring: Das Rheingold Valentin Schwarz 154 Min Opera Important castings were changed right up to the first performances, with Tomasz Konieczny injuring himself when a chair broke during Die Walkre, requiring Michael Kupfer-Radetzky to make a successful substitution at very short notice, and Clay Hilley stepping in for Stephen Gould as Siegfried in Gtterdmmerung at the last minute. 12.8. Boston, Massachusetts, United States . The two Brnnhildes (Daniela Khler took the role in Siegfried, with Theorin in the other two operas) were as commanding as the role requires. They take everything personally. Excerpts from Die Walkre, Lohengrin, Parsifal and Gtterdmmerung will be heard. Verdi, Beethoven, Tchakovski. The Bayreuth Festival in Germany has announced its 2023 program. Venus Ekaterina Gubanova Eva Camilla Nylund Bayreuth 2022: Das Rheingold (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister), Bayreuth 2022: Die Walkre (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister), Bayreuth 2022: Siegfried (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister), Bayreuth 2022: Gtterdmmerung (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister), Bayreuth 2019: Tannhuser (Tobias Kratzer/Christian Thielemann), Bayreuth 2019: Lohengrin (Yuval Sharon/Christian Thielemann), Bayreuth 2019: Die Meistersinger von Nrnberg (Kosky/Jordan), Bayreuth 2019: Tristan und Isolde (Katharina Wagner/Christian Thielemann), Bayreuth 2017: Die Meistersinger von Nrnberg (Kosky/Jordan), Bayreuth 2017: Parsifal (Uwe Eric Laufenberg / Hartmut Haenchen), Bayreuth 2017: Das Rheingold (Frank Castorf/Marek Janowski), Bayreuth 2017: Die Walkre (Frank Castorf/ Marek Janowski), Bayreuth 2017: Siegfried (Castorf/Janowski), Bayreuth 2017: Gtterdmmerung (Castorf/Janowski), Bayreuth 2016: Parsifal (Uwe Eric Laufenberg / Hartmut Haenchen), Bayreuth 2016: Tristan und Isolde (Katharina Wagner/Christian Thielemann), Bayreuth 2016: Gtterdmmerung (Frank Castorf/ Marek Janowski), Bayreuth-2016: Siegfried (Frank Castorf/ Marek Janowski), Bayreuth 2016: Die Walkre (Frank Castorf/ Marek Janowski), Bayreuth 2016: Das Rheingold (Frank Castorf/Marek Janowski), Bayreuth 2014: Frank Castorf Ring: Das Rheingold, Bayreuth 2014: Frank Castorf Ring: Die Walkre, Bayreuth 2014: Frank Castorf Ring: Siegfried, Bayreuth 2014: Frank Castorf Ring: Gtterdmmerung, Bayreuth 2011: Marthaler Tristan und Isolde, Daniel Barenboim: Complete Wagner Operas (34 CD), Christian Wildhagen, Neue Zrcher Zeitung, Judith von Sternburg, Frankfurter Rundschau, Klaus Billand, 5. After 29 performances in the Festspielhaus, the 110th Bayreuth Festival comes to a successful close today. (Bernhard Neuhoff, BR Klassik), Nachdem man den ersten beiden Abenden viel Positives abgewinnen konnte, berrascht nun Cornelius Meister mit einem zupackenden Dirigat und gutem Zusammenspiel mit dem Orchester, whrend die Solisten leider schwcheln und die Inszenierung vielen Zuschauern den letzten Nerv raubt. Poscher managed to dilate the time of each silence to the extreme, creating a strong effect of tension. 9.8. Nur: Was interessieren uns die Geissens? 28.7. and then stumbling back off again, was not the least embarrassing episode in a renewed, though hardly rejuvenated, string of scenic non sequiturs. It is not freely associating; indeed, it is barely associating at all. "That's why I already feel very comfortable and at home in the 'Ring' production," he said. (Sddeutsche Zeitung), Valentin Schwarz inszeniert Rheingold bei den Bayreuther Festspielen als Auftakt seines Ring des Nibelungen. Wagner built the theatre at Bayreuth with shocking innovations at that time. The Norns were sung by Okka von der Damerau, Stphanie Mther and Kelly God. With an auditorium in which his music unfolds like in no other theatre in the world. This button displays the currently selected search type. ", "I had the feeling that more and more people were coming to Bayreuth for the first time, rather than for 30 or 40 years," museum director Sven Friedrich toldDW. 1.8. The festival's latest take on Wagner's"Ring" cycle was supposed to be staged in 2020, but had to be postponed due to COVID. It made for a long and dispiriting evening, though. Bayreuth Festival :: Reviews, Schedules & Photos Company search click here for a gallery of photos from recent productions Tannhuser Bayreuth Festival Der Fliegende Hollnder Bayreuth Festival Gtterdmmerung Bayreuth Festival click here for more photos for this opera company Click below for production trailers Tannhuser Der Fliegende Hollnder I am only too aware of precedents, of how, say, Patrice Chreaus first run met with uproar and incomprehension, proceeding to become perhaps the best loved (and esteemed) Ring of all time. After Tristan - A Journey from the Past Backwards into the Present. Bayreuth Festival 2022 Review: Tristan und Isolde Catherine Foster Shines in Roland Schwab's Beautiful Production By Mauricio Villa While taking in a divisive production of "Der Ring des Nibelungen ," it was quite refreshing to take in the August 12 performance of "Tristan und Isolde" and come away hearing deserved bravos and cheers. Siegfried The latter production was added to the schedule at short notice in order to remain playable in the event of conceivable outbreaks of infection in the collectives, and will be on the schedule again next year. Get your tickets here! Gunther (Michael Kupfer-Radecky) and the vassals. Die Neuproduktion Der Ring des Nibelungen" feiert seine Premiere in der Inszenierung von Valentin Schwarz und unter der musikalischen Leitung von @corn_iusmeister . Categories: Bayreuth, FESTIVALS, Opera, retransmissions radiofniques Tags: Catherine Foster, Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Eberhard Friedrich, Ekaterina Gubanova, Georg Zeppenfeld, Jorge Rodrguez-Norton, Markus Eiche, Markus Poschner, OlafurSigurdarson, Raimund Nolte, Richard Wagner, Siyabonga Maqungo, Stephen Gould, Tristan A theatre created for a single composer: the Bayreuth Festival Theatre. Fullness and bloom of voice were often as impressive as her sheer resolve to get on with it. And so it happens that you see the characters acting completely different from what they are singing; there is a complete detachment between their words and their actions. Schwarzs unwillingness or inability to formulate any kind of concept, let alone to present it successfully, has long since had hopes for drama run out of steam. In an abstract stage design, he had colors splashed against white walls. Even Cornelius Meisters conducting, a solid highlight of the previous three evenings, proved more mixed here. This article was originally written in German, Sexism allegations overshadow Bayreuth Festival. He dies at the front of the stage as Isolde remains trapped at the back, unable to cross the central oval. 10 Die Feen 6 1960-1999 1967-08 Bell Bayreuth 1976-05-02 Downes Manchester 1983-02-13 Ehrling Wien 1983-07 Sawallisch Mnchen 1989-09-07 Schwarz Mnchen . (Photo: Enrico Nawrath, Bayreuter Festspiele). For the 16-hour cycle of the "Ring," which premiered in 1876, Richard Wagner had his festival hall built according to his own architectural ideas. Nov. 2022 - Dez. Das Rheingold Mon 17 Jul 2023 Kulturinsel Whrmhle . Conversely, Wilhelm Schwinghammer gave a strong interpretation of the short role of Fafner. The dark-haired boy we first saw in Das Rheingold shooting others with a water-pistol at the swimming pool seems in some sense to have become the gold, the ring, young Hagen, and nowoddly, having aged far faster than everyone elseold Hagen. Knappe Martin Homrich The timbrical richness of Wagners orchestration was solid, but I consider that this interpretation relied strongly on the dynamics. 27.8. Reply. Casting. The Nibelungs, a dwarf race, are represented in this production by little blond girls in uniform drawing pictures. (Tiroler Tageszeitung), Bhnenunfall, Buhgewitter und ein unrunder Ring: Eine Schrecksekunde, ein Bhnenunfall und ein Einspringer, der bejubelt wird. Instead, though, we end up with something that trivially disrupts the very parallelism the production seems to wish to construct between Wotan and Alberich, and arguably has more than a pinch of ableism to it. Further reviews may be found at http://boulezian.blogspot.com. n the final pages of his Ring cycle, Wagners orchestral writing reaches extraordinary heights of grandeur and conviction, in music that depicts the destruction of an old corrupt world and the dawn of a new untainted one. 90 (1883) *** Symphonie Nr. The ring we see this year is actually supposed to premiere in 2020, unsurprisingly due to the corona pandemic. Anyway, Grane goes with Siegfried into the world (actually, back to part of Fafners house, I think) to encounter a Gunther who slightly resembles Peter Stringfellow or even Jimmy Savile, but whose inspiration a German friend tells me is a trashy television series called Die Geissens eine schrecklich glamourse Familie. Find Stephanie Stumph Photos stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. Originally scheduled for 2020, it arrived two years late due to the pandemic with a new conductor, Meister, drafted in at short notice after Pietari Inkinen contracted Covid. The focus was on the two new productions of "Der Ring des Nibelungen" and "Tristan und Isolde". Lohengrin Gunther leaves the carrier bag with pieces of his body by the pool for Brnnhilde in pink dressing gown eventually to pick up Granes head to sing to. Amfortas Michael Volle Produkte. But the tremendously difficult task of a stage director is to find solutions to the scenes, not to ignore them, and create a parallel dramaturgy. Lohengrin 2022 (683) December 2022 (43) November 2022 (58 ) October 2022 . Gralsritter Timo Riihonen The set is a big oval chamber with an open oval on the ceiling and a central oval on the floor.Through the open ceiling we bear witness to projections of weather changes, depending on the action of the opera. Connoisseurs, friends, skeptics they all come to the green hill every summer to explore his legacy, away from the great centres of culture. 2,279 were here. But his voice lost intensity and projection from the middle to the upper range, giving little vocal consistency in a role which has to sound authoritative and powerful. August 2021: 1, 8, 12, 17, 24, Conductor Axel Kober Olafur Sigurdarson was a fine and plausible Alberich. International expert workshop on the digital health divide at the University of Bayreuth, Campus Kulmbach: Submit your Beliebt bei Petronela Sandulache. The festspielhaus in Bayreuth is possibly the most unique opera house in the world. Wotan - Egils SilinsDonner - Raimund NolteFroh - Attilio GlaserLoge - Daniel KirchFricka - Christa MayerFreia - Elisabeth TeigeErda - Okka von der DamerauAlb. "I thought I'd just tell people about the festival idea and how a festival day works.". Gtterdmmerung Turning a horse into a man in a suit does not seem much compensation, or even relevant. If quality of diction came and went, there was much to appreciate in Irne Theorins Brnnhilde, who managed to maintain a considerable degree of dignity, events around here notwithstanding. It comes from the extensive library of the Counts Giech, who held court in the Thurnau manor until the 19th century. Knappe Attilio Glaser Find live music near you. Der fliegende Hollnder After two constricted pandemic years, the Bayreuth Festival is back with an unprecedented line-up of Wagner operas and full houses.Those attending this . 31.8. Ulrich Eisslinger Christopher Kaplan Valentin Schwarzs production of the four-opera epic presents human characters with relations even more tangled than usual. But Corona cast long shadows over Bayreuth's sweltering heat this year. "COVID has unfortunately also. 8/13, 8/16, 8/23) (Photo: Enrico Nawrath, Bayreuter Festspiele). The soprano seemed to be having unusually difficult times with the role anyway. In the past, the museum director has often been asked whichcelebrities will be in attendance. Insofar as one could avoid Schwarzs weird conception of Guntherwas he supposed to be high, or just very, very peculiar?the same could be said of Michael Kupfer-Radecky in that role. Gnther Groissbock canceled a year ago. Festspiel Open Air Klaus Florian Vogt, in his element as Lohengrin under Thielemann, brought his otherworldly tone to Siegmund too, outstanding in the annunciation of death scene with Brnnhilde, but less effective in conveying the characters tortured loneliness. Grane is later beaten to something not a million miles from horsemeat. Several female employees at the music festival were allegedly groped, including festival director Katharina Wagner, underscoring the prevalence of everyday sexism in Germany. Intermission Robe On The Road. Whatever the correct interpretation is of this new ending, it does not betray the original source or make the story confused. Leave a Reply . Bei der Musik gibt es Hoffnung, aber die Arbeit muss jetzt erst richtig beginnen. He will also co-edit the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Wagner's 'Ring'. Tristan und Isolde 26.7. The orchestra, even at its loudest, never overpowers a singers voice even if the singers are whispering. Hans svenska operadebut var i rollen som greven i Figaros brllop p Gteborgsoperan r 1994 och hans internationella operadebut kom r 1996 i titelrollen i Eugne Onegin vid Spoleto-festivalen (Festival dei Due Mondi) i Italien, med regissren och . RoboSpot Tutorials. Kundry Petra Lang Grnderin und Knstlerische Produktionsleitung soundance festival berlin soundance festival berlin Jan. 2017 -Heute 6 Jahre 3 Monate. The hall capacity will be 1925 seats. The focus was on the two new productions of Der Ring des Nibelungen and Tristan und Isolde. in 2020 the festival was cancelled, 2021 Bayreuth was a shaky affairtoo uncertain for a mammoth ring project. Gutrune (Elisabeth Teige), taking a selfie, and Gunther (Michael Kupfer-Radecky) on the sofa. Nobody had done that on the stage before. The Schwarz cycle ran out of steam in the end because it had no big or unifying idea not even a really bad unifying idea such as Frank Castorfs pretentious 2013-17 Bayreuth Ring which preceded this one. . The singers drew a. There is no Wotan spear at all, an element that plays a crucial importance throughout the whole Ring cycle. I understand the idea of focusing in human relationships and setting the action in modern times to make these challenges operas more accessible to modern audiences. "The Ring is a massive family epic in almost Greek format and is therefore made for a cinematic approach," Schwarz explains in the trailer for the fourth part of the series, namely "Gtterdmmerung," or "Twilight of the Gods.". Siegfried A tale of sex und crime: Just who are the Nibelungs? More information is available on the official website of the festival. All the actions take place around this oval in Act one until the couple drink the love potion which is when they step into the oval for the very first time. Wotans interventions in Das Rheingold lack the lyricism that this character has in Die Walkre. And even if Silins German diction was immaculate, it was noticeable that he was more comfortable on the few lyrical legato lines, like in the fourth actIn des morguens scheine, than in the rest of the opera where his singing is in the recitative style. Per-Erik Skramstad - Wagneropera.net. On the opening day of the Richard Wagner Festival, temperatures in Bayreuth are well over 30 degrees. Rarely if ever before, though, can they have been so recklessly divested of all character, even much in the way of motivation, and for that to have been the fate of dwarves, giants, heroes, and humans too. Meister will then take over "Tristan und Isolde" in Bayreuth again in 2023. Tannhuser Was erzhlt Wagner, was erzhlt Schwarz, was ergibt die Differenz. Veit Pogner Georg Zeppenfeld Siegfried zieht ihm den Rollator weg, worauf er einen Herzschlag bekommt. Long considered the embodiment of German high culture, Bayreuth's opera festival is the most famous Wagner festival in the World. After Tristan A Journey from the Past Backwards into the Present. It is true that their roles are very short and delegated to a few spare lines, but the baritone lacked the vocal power to sing heroic line likeHe da, He da, he do which turned out to be tedious and uninteresting. Characterisation would help, to put it mildly, but so would a sense of the political and indeed the religiousof context whether broadly, specifically, or both (ideally). I suppose a cyclical turn will appeal to some who insist on referring to the Ring as a cycle, when it is nothing of the sort. Berlin, Germany . Georg Zeppenfeld an exemplary Hunding. So many important questions, moreover, are treated similarly. Freia Elisabeth Teige Im Video wird die Es-Dur Ursuppe des Rheingold-Vorspiels zur Fruchtblase, in der sich zwei Babys friedlich schlafend wiegen. Parsifal Excerpts. Mime Arnold Bezuyen 13.8. The third act, though, was much better, a sense of form as living structure once again imparted. Gunther wears a sparkly top that asks Who the fuck is Grane? Quite, though one might ask that about anyone here, really. His voice is bigger and denser comparing to the tenors usually cast for this part. Costumes by Andy Besuch. But truth be told, the production entertains and the sets are pleasant to look at: a swimming pool for the opening scene, a vintage decorated mansion for the second and fourth scene, cars, guns, CCTV footage. Stphanie Mther and Kelly God as two of the Norns in Bayreuth festivals staging of Gtterdmmerung. Stndig ist man am Rtseln und Entziffern. In addition to "Tristan and Isolde" and the "Ring" series, the operas "Lohengrin" and "Tannhuser" will be performed in addition tolast year's "Flying Dutchman," conducted by Oksana Lyniv,the first femaleconductor at the Bayreuth Festival. Those attending this year's Bayreuth Festival from July 25 to September 1 can look forward to five premieres. Ein Nachtwchter Gnther Groissbck, July 2021: 26 New Ring cycles are springing up as the worlds opera houses get back into their rhythms after the pandemic. Stefan Herheim om samarbeidet med Gatti etc. Festspielhgel 1-2 As the curtain fell, it triggered a fusillade of booing - along with cheering too. The overture begins with a short motif that concludes in the famous Tristans chord. This is repeated three times in different keys with three silences in between. In addition to "Parsifal," the 2023 festival will present "The Ring of the Nibelung," "Tristan and Isolde," "Tannhuser" and "The Flying Dutchman. Eine Altstimme Simone Schrder, Puristen-Parsifal: Thielemann rockt (Festspielblog.de), Christian Thielemann dirigiert in einer starken Bayreuther Saison einen genialen Parsifal im Festspielhaus (Frankfurter Rundschau), Sopran: Christine Goerke Occasionally, everything comes together, as it did last in Barry Koskys 2017 Die Meistersinger, conducted by Philippe Jordan, and before that in Stefan Herheims brilliant Parsifal in 2008, conducted by Daniele Gatti. The light changed with the music, and the shadows and patterns seemed as archetypal as the music itself. Volume 14, Number 3 Fall 2000 LE TMOTUVE THE JOURNAL OF THE WAGNER SOCIETY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CONTROVERSY THY NAME IS WAGNER Can We Separate The Man From His Art? (Photo: Enrico Nawrath, Bayreuter Festspiele). Home; News; Encyclopera; Our references. He opted for some extreme tempi that were quite distant from tradition, and I believe this was the reason for the huge disapproval of the audience. (Some might argue racism too; let us leave that for another day. Raimund Nolte and Attilio Glaser were simply correct as Donner and Froh. Tannhuser Stephen Gould The staging is mostly dynamic with the exception of the first scene which turned out to be quite still and slow. Wagner demands constant forte ascensions to A naturals at the most riveting emotional climaxes, such as the end of act one, the beginning of the love duet or the climax moments in Act three; in Goulds voice, they sounded underpowered. Andy Besuch (costumes) Plus d'options Max Emanuel Cencic chante Haendel Festival Bayreuth Baroque 2022 Plus d'options. The British soprano has a big, dark sound with a marked but stable vibrato. Bis eines dem anderen das Auge aussticht und das andere den einen entmannt. Johannes Brahms Symphonie Nr. Festspiel Open Air Tristan - Stephen GouldMarke - Georg ZeppenfeldIsolde - Catherine FosterKurwenal - Markus EicheMelot - Olafur SigurdarsonBrangne - Ekaterina GubanovaEin Hir. There is so much in these bloody pieces, all you can do is try to live up to them." As an audience member, one could certainly relate. The unfortunate image resembles Golden Girl Rose Nylund doing a turn as Salome on her way to collect midnight cheesecake, albeit with none of the fun or interest that might entail. 26.8. Director Barrie Kosky He overdarkens and rounds the sound which leads to him losing projection from the C upwards above the stave. Like a child with an extremely limited attention span, Schwarz presents something, tires of it, presents a new thing without bothering to connect it to the previous thing, and continues. His timbre is completely even and balanced from low to high, presenting a clear, round sound.
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