(Sddeutsche Zeitung), Valentin Schwarz inszeniert Rheingold bei den Bayreuther Festspielen als Auftakt seines Ring des Nibelungen. In 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. Best of 2022: Opera A pocket 'Patience' sits alongside perfect Poulenc from Glyndebourne and concert Handel theartsdesk in Brno - a visionary at home in his 'Moravian Bayreuth . Waltraute Christa Meyer Der Ring des Nibelungen NYT Critic's Pick. Siegfried 4.8. Alexander Meier-Drzenbach on La bohme. (Matthias Lachenmann), Der Bayreuther Ring-Regisseur Valentin Schwarz inszeniert Wagners groes Musikdrama um Gold und Gier, Zwerge und Drachen als moderne Serie ber eine verkorkste Familie. Das Festival junger Knstler Bayreuth ist eine jhrlich zur Zeit der Bayreuther Festspiele stattfindende Veranstaltung fr junge Musiker und Knstler aus aller Welt. 04.05.2022 In the midst of the Corona pandemic, a compendium of four small-format books found its way into the Research Institute for Music Theatre in Thurnau. Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy) Walther von Stolzing Klaus Florian Vogt Valentin Schwarzs Ring ends more or less where it began, bar curtain-calls in which the long-awaited appearance of Schwarz and his team was greeted by the most intensive booing I have ever heard. 20.8. So many important questions, moreover, are treated similarly. Those wanting to know more about Wagner's impact on popular culturecan visit the special exhibition, showing at the Richard Wagner Museum, on how the composerhas been appropriated to marketeverything frombeer toheavy metal music. Lohengrin He has written widely on intellectual, cultural, and musical history from the later seventeenth century to the present day. Produkte. He hid the orchestra under the stage to find a better communion between the audience and the stage without the barrier of the orchestra. She masterfully sustained the uncomfortable tessitura for a mezzo-soprano, with multiple sections written between E flat and A natural. Andrea Cozzi (designs) Andreas Schager was a wonderfully manic Siegfried, ringingly dauntless throughout his name opera. In the libretto, Tristan and Isolda are only truly united when they die, as this is the only moment when they can be totally free and love each other without conditions. And these measures turned out to produce a pure balanced sound where all the textures of his compositions are perfectly audible. This is not a matter of highlighting contradictions, already existing or even newly created. The music, in short, was saying everything, but the staging, an empty pool full of junk, nothing. 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 theartsdesk at the Bayreuth Festival Ring 2022 - a jumbled mess of ideas, some of them compelling A Tarantino-style Ring cycle offers many inspired scenes, but little coherence or depth by Gavin Dixon Tuesday, 09 August 2022 Share Egils Silins as Wotan (left), Daniel Kirch as Loge (right) All images Bayrether Festspeiel/Enrico Nawrath Since 1876, when he first performed his Ring des Nibelungen as a cycle. Nathalie Stutzmann et Alexandre Tharaud. and then stumbling back off again, was not the least embarrassing episode in a renewed, though hardly rejuvenated, string of scenic non sequiturs. It makes you a little bit scared, and it's really quite terrifying." 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. 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 (Benjamin Britten to Alan Blyth, Gramophone), "I was bowled over. Stefan Herheim om samarbeidet med Gatti etc. He imprinted a sense of power and vitality to the score. He effortlessly sang a strong high G in Act three upon realizing that Isolde is finally coming to Tristans side. There is so much in these bloody pieces, all you can do is try to live up to them." In the cinema Reichshof. (Matthias Lachenmann), Am Sonntagabend feierte "Das Rheingold" von Regisseur Valentin Schwarz Premiere bei den Bayreuther Festspielen. Der fliegende Hollnder Bayreuth festivalValentin Schwarzs new staging of Wagners epic has some thought-provoking moments, but few were sustainable and most were just distracting. August 14, 2022 16:00:00. Turning a horse into a man in a suit does not seem much compensation, or even relevant. Alberich Olafur Sigurdarson Lohengrin 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 " Gorgeous acoustics " Aug 2019 Great performance and great acoustics! There was a foretaste last year at a multimedia "Ring" performance, which included a production of "The Valkyries" by Austrian action artist Hermann Nitsch. Nobody had done that on the stage before. A version of Lohengrin created especially for children was performed ten times with great success on rehearsal stage IV. I thought it was extraordinary and wonderful." It is hardly unusual for the gods to have nothing god-like to them at any stage whatsoever, though such is at best a one-sided view. Advertisement Those attending this. But this isnt all that surprising. 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. (Martin Kettle, The Guardian), Das Licht der Welt erblicken auch zwei Kinder, die wir im Vorspiel in einer Videoprojektion sehen, die sich wohl schon im Mutterleib spinnefeind sind Wotan und sein Schatten (C. G. Jung) Alberich. BUT, the problem is that such a realistic approach does not tell the story of the opera well, filling Wagners original libretto with contradictions to the point that the story being played onstage resembles nothing of the actual text. "We are very happy to be virtually sold-out.". and Rebroadcasts . 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? The air is boiling in the Festspielhaus, which has neither air conditioning to speak of nor modern fire protection. Select from premium Stephanie Stumph Photos of the highest quality. These bare stagings, where everything was done with lighting. Those attending this year's Bayreuth Festival from July 25 to September 1 can look forward to five premieres. Their sound is precise and has a sense of perfection, polish, and passion at the same time. 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. Was erzhlt Wagner, was erzhlt Schwarz, was ergibt die Differenz. Ein Nachtwchter Gnther Groissbck, July 2021: 26 The staging is mostly dynamic with the exception of the first scene which turned out to be quite still and slow. Ergibt sie was? Ulrich Eisslinger Christopher Kaplan More than 50,000 spectators attended this year's Festival. There may be no definitive answer, yet it is hardly a question simply to be ignored or, worse, trivialised. Grane Igor Schwab, Valentin Schwarz (director) Bayreuth concerts Bayreuth concerts. Die galten offenbar der Regie von Valentin Schwarz. Knappe Attilio Glaser The third act, though, was much better, a sense of form as living structure once again imparted. Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, 7-17 September 2023, Margravial Opera House, Bayreuth - Program Tristan und Isolde 26.7. 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. 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. Hagen (Albert Dohmen) left, and Gunther (Michael Kupfer-Radecky) kissing Siegfried (on this photo Stephen Gould, but Clay Hilley stepped as Siegfried 5 August since Stephen Gould was sick. (Lance Ryan on the audiences at Bayreuth), "People sometimes complain that Wagner operas are too long, that they get stiff and sore about 10.30 because they have rushed in to hear one of his works straight from work and are not properly prepared for listening to his music. The Bayreuth Festival (German: Bayreuther Festspiele) is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of operas by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. The soprano seemed to be having unusually difficult times with the role anyway. Innovation. And OperaWire came about as a desire to take in as much of it and allow the passionate fan base access to everything this wondrous art form has to offer on a daily basis. In the cinema Reichshof. Intermission This year, hundreds of visitors experienced three enthusiastic performances of the commissioned work Nach Tristan in the Reichshof cinema with the great artists Dagmar Manzel and Sylvester Groth. Tenor Daniel Kirch sang the role of Loge. The theatre is the host for the annual festival Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden, established in 1896 after the . Her interpretation was chilling and full of pathos. It is a competitive market. Woglinde Lee-an Dunbar Sixtus Beckmesser Johannes Martin Krnzle (Bo Skovhus 26.7.) Nachhaltigkeit bei Robe. 28.7. (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. He conducted 154 Vienna Philharmonic concerts heading into the tour . "That's why I already feel very comfortable and at home in the 'Ring' production," he said. Orchestre de Paris et Ariane Matiakh : Faur, Strauss. 30.7. Concert Classique. Unwillingnesslet us be charitableto carry though any coherent correspondence between objects, themes, even often characters, leaves us with an incoherence that does not register as an aesthetic challenge, but simply as a careless mess. Bayreuth Festival 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) In some ways the most successful staging of the cycle was act two of Gtterdmmerung, performed without fuss or distraction inside a simple white cube set that felt like a 20th-century throwback. It is by any standards climactic. Gurnemanz Georg Zeppenfeld (Matthias Lachenmann), In der Trash-TV-Sendung Die Geissens erlebt der Zuschauer das Leben einer reichen, wohlstandsverwahrlosten und prolligen Familie, was Valentin Schwarz nach dem ersten Aufzug der Gtterdmmerung zu urteilen zu seiner Ring-Inszenierung inspiriert hat. Stefan Herheim om samarbeidet med Gatti etc. Lighting Reinhard Traub Concert with excerpts from Tannhuser, Rienzi and Tristan und Isolde. The two Brnnhildes (Daniela Khler took the role in Siegfried, with Theorin in the other two operas) were as commanding as the role requires. Hagen Albert Dohmen 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. (Christian Wildhagen, Neue Zrcher Zeitung), Intellektuell und sinnlich erweist sich der neue Bayreuther Ring schlielich als das Fiasko, an das man zuvor drei Abende lang trotzdem nicht glauben konnte. Third Norn Kelly God 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. All of the leitmotifs were clearly expressed in the orchestra and all sections were completely balanced. If vocal performances did not always reach the heights, nor did they ever fall below a reasonable level. 1. Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Waldhter ihr (Gurnemanz, Ritter) - Act 1 (Remastered 2023, Bayreuth 1962)" and more. Controversy was in full force as the second run of performances of the Bayreuths Ring des Nibelungen kicked off on August 10. Mon 17 Jul 2023 Kulturinsel Whrmhle . 2022 16:00:00. While most productions are usually planned years in advance, director Roland Schwab was only commissioned to take on this a new production of Wagners masterpiece in December 2021, leaving the creative team seven months to design, present the project, build the production, and rehearse it. The Bayreuth Festival 2022 25.7. Conductor Christian Thielemann In the cinema Reichshof. (Photo: Enrico Nawrath, Bayreuter Festspiele), Hagen (Albert Dohmen) and Gunther (Michael Kupfer-Radecky). Markus Eiches lyrical baritone was ideal for the role of Kurwenal. It comes from the extensive library of the Counts Giech, who held court in the Thurnau manor until the 19th century. Christian Thielemann. Heinrich der Schreiber Jorge Rodrguez-Norton Alberich Olafur Sigurdarson Concert Classique. If the chorus was far from overwhelming in the Vassals Scene, perhaps Covid restrictions were still in play; it looked as well as sounded smaller than usual. Schwarzs cycle was a further milestone in Bayreuths continuing loss of authority and direction. (Deutschlandfunk Kultur), Im Stil einer Netflix-Serie will der junge Regisseur Valentin Schwarz Wagners "Ring" in Bayreuth erzhlen: als Familiensaga, die in unserer Gegenwart spielt. (Photo: Enrico Nawrath, Bayreuter Festspiele), Das Rheingold (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) - Bayreuth Festival 2022, Die Walkre (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) - Bayreuth Festival 2022, Siegfried (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) - Bayreuth Festival 2022, Gtterdmmerung (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) - Bayreuth Festival 2022, Sam Goodyear: Der Ring des Nibelungen (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) - Bayreuth Festival 2022, 25.7. Gtterdmmerung Johannes Brahms Symphonie Nr. He led his first Vienna Philharmonic performance in 2000. Robe lighting's technology SHED. International expert workshop on the digital health divide at the University of Bayreuth, Campus Kulmbach: Submit your Beliebt bei Petronela Sandulache.