Assistant Director Takes Stage As Brünhilde At Bayreuth In Relief of Injured Soprano
We saw Jonas Kaufmann sing for a sick Piotr Beczala while the latter mimed onstage. We saw a stage director sub in for a sick tenor even more recently. But we’d never seen an assistant director don a wig and play Brünhilde while another singer took on the vocal challenges. Until now. As the famed “Götterdämmerung” at the Bayreuth Festival {…}