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Bayreuth Festival 2022 Review: Siegfried

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(Credit: Enrico Nawrath) And now we have entered the realm of the absurd. Those who read my reviews for “Das Rheingold” and “Die Walküre,” know that I was quite critical of director Valentin Schwarz’s approach, which proved hostile to the original libretto in most of his “creative” choices. But this production of “Siegfried” somehow managed to push beyond those limits {…}

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Bayreuth Festival Announces Cast Change for ‘Götterdämmerung’ Premiere

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The Bayreuth Festival has announced a cast change for the premiere of “Götterdämmerung” on August 5, 2022. The company said, “To his greatest regret, Stephen Gould has to cancel his participation as Siegfried in the premiere of ‘Götterdämmerung’ due to illness. The festival management would like to thank Clay Hilley, who will also take on the role today.” Hilley has {…}

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Deutsche Grammophon Expands Relationship with Bayreuth Festival

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Deutsche Grammophon has announced that it will once again be the exclusive international media partner of the Bayreuth Festival 2022. The company noted that it will expand its longstanding partnership as it will build on the benchmark standards of online streaming that the partnership has set in the last two years. Deutsche Grammophon will record Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle tetralogy {…}

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Bayreuth Festival Experiencing Rising COVID Cases

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Opera Magazine is reporting that COVID cases are on the rise at the Bayreuth Festival. The publication is reporting that “among the high number of COVID cases hitting artists and staff at Bayreuth’s ⁦Festival include Ring Cycle conductor Pietari Inkinen, who is isolating.” As a result, Cornelius Meister,  who is already conducting the new “Tristan und Isolde,” is currently rehearsing {…}

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Lise Davidsen, Stephen Gould & Catherine Foster Lead Bayreuth Festival’s 2022 Season

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The Bayreuth Festival has announced its 2022 season. The festival will open with a production of “Tristan und Isolde” conducted by Cornelius Meister. The production by Roland Schwab will star Stephen Gould and Catherine Foster in the title roles as well as Georg Zeppenfeld, Markus Eiche, and Ekaterina Gubanova. Performance Dates: July 25 & August 12, 2022 The festival will present {…}

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Bayreuth Festival Next Ring Cycle to Be Like Netflix Series

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With anticipation building for the new Ring Cycle at the Bayreuth Festival this summer, director Valentin Schwarz has dropped details about the upcoming production. In an interview with the German Press Agency, the director said that he is planning the next Bayreuth Ring as a Netflix series. He added, “The fact that the ‘Ring’ in Bayreuth will be performed in {…}

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Bayreuth Festival Announces 2022 Ring Cycle Cast & 2023 ‘Parsifal’

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The Bayreuth Festival has announced the cast and director of the new production of “Ring des Nibelungen” slated for 2022. Pietari Inkinen is set to conduct the new production by Valentin Schwarz with stage design by Andrea Cozzi and costumes by Andy Besuch. “Das Rheingold” will star Daniel Kirch, Christa Mayer, and Olafur Sigurdarson while “Die Walkure” Klaus Florian Vogt, Georg {…}

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Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe Announces 2021-22 Season

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The Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe in Germany has announced its 2021-22 season featuring ballet, theater, and opera. For this article, we will only highlight the opera productions. Premieres Mozart’s “La Finta Giardiniera” will get a new production with Yura Yang conducting and Anja Kühnhold directing. Premiere Date: Oct. 23, 2021 Emmerich Kálmán’s “Grafin Mariza” gets a new production with Georg Fritzsch {…}