
Q & A: Valentin Schwarz on the Bayreuth Festival’s ‘Ring Cycle’
https://operawire.com/q-a-valentin-schwarz-on-the-bayreuth-festivals-ring-cycle/
(Credit: Daniel.Karmann) At the age of 33 Vienna-based Valentin Schwarz designed and directed a controversial staging of Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen,” which for the past four years has been featured at the celebrated Bayreuth Festival. This August 2025 marks Bayreuth’s final performance of Schwarz’s “Ring.” Starting in the autumn, he becomes artistic director of the Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle {…}