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Obituary: Lighting Designer Rainer Casper Dies at 60

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Lighting designer Rainer Casper has died at 60. Born in 1964,  Casper initially worked at the Cologne Theater before working as head of lighting at the Leipzig Theater, the Hannover Theater, and the Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin, where his collaboration with Frank Castorf began. With Castroff he notably designed the lighting for the “The Ring of the Nibelung” at {…}

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Bayreuth Festival 2025 Review: Parsifal

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(© Enrico Nawrath) First seen on the Green Hill in 2023, the director of “Parsifal,” 55-year-old Jay Scheib, professor of music and theatre arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an American of international standing in the hi-tech world, is a technological wizard like no other! A couple of his credits include Thomas Adès’ “Powder Her Face” (New York {…}

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Bayreuth Festival 2024 Review: Parsifal

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(Photo credit: ©EnricoNawrath) In preparation for the new “Parsifal” at Bayreuth last year, one may have harbored preconceived doubts as to the very idea regarding the use of Augmented Reality eyeglasses. After attending this year’s performances, the doubts lingered; and although this production may not be considered a negative adventure per se, one may not view this experiment as a {…}