The Bayreuth Festival has announced that due to budget cuts, its 2026 season will only present seven operas as opposed to the originally announced 11 works. In a letter obtained by Slippedisc the company said, “The current cost developments pose major challenges for the Bayreuth Festival. …Due to the very high proportion of personnel costs in the overall budget, the {…}
(Courtesy of Bayreuth Festival) The Bayreuth Festival has announced plans for the 2026 season. The company noted that it would celebrate its 150th anniversary with a special Ring Cycle. The festival noted that while Valentin Schwarz’s 2022 staging of the four-night “Der Ring des Nibelungen” will be revived for the final time in 2025, 2026 will be “not purely a {…}
The Bayreuth Festival is set to present Wagner’s “Rienzi” in 2026. Katharina Wagner said in a text that she believes that “Rienzi” is now part of the canon even though Wagner himself had not found the opera worthy of Bayreuth. She said, “And I’m sure Richard Wagner, in his artistic restlessness, would have enjoyed it from today’s perspective.” “Rienzi” made {…}