Tag: Bayreuth Festival
Wagner’s "Parsifal" in Dornach: Dance to the Heroes
The Anthroposophical Society stages Wagner’s stage festival play “Parsifal” in Dornach. With movement art, a star cast and a touch of mystery. source site
The exceptional singer Michael Spyres sings Richard Wagner – Culture for the first time
Outside the window, the tricolor is waving next to the obelisk. Inside the Strasbourg Opera House, an exuberantly cheerful Michael Spyres presents his new singer’s album “In the Shadows” (Erato).…
The opera world is crazy about director Tobias scratch. Why? – Bavaria
In the fall, Tobias scratch opens the new season of the Bavarian State Opera with Richard Wagner’s “Rheingold”; the new “Ring” belongs to him. Scratcher knew what he wanted to…
The Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth was Richard Wagner’s first own house – Bavaria
Down the stairs, behind the heavy door, there it glows, the Grail. Well, it’s not really that miraculous vessel that holds Christ’s blood that glows so mysteriously in the center…
The opera world is crazy about director Tobias scratch. Why? – Bavaria
In the fall, Tobias scratch opens the new season of the Bavarian State Opera with Richard Wagner’s “Rheingold”; the new “Ring” belongs to him. Scratcher knew what he wanted to…
Dorst’s man of life: Author Ursula Ehler dies – Munich
Ursula Ehler was easy to recognize at premieres, as petite and small as she was. With her red curly hair she stood out neatly from the crowd. Or you first…
Art theft on the Green Hill: "Citizens steal everything"
The conceptual artist Ottmar Hörl is used to his works being stolen. The total loss of 115 mini-Wagners on Bayreuth’s festival hill, the haven of middle-class decency? What does that…
Claudia Roth wants the audience at the Bayreuth Festival to have more diverse culture
Anyone who visits the large and medium-sized opera houses in Europe, whether in Hamburg or Madrid, Munich or Brussels, Vienna or London, Salzburg or Bayreuth, regularly notices that, in contrast…
A documentation center on the history of Nazi ideology is being built in Bayreuth. – Bavaria
A British aristocrat, ardent Wagnerian and Richard Wagner’s son-in-law, is considered a pioneer of National Socialist racial theory. A documentation center is now to be built in his former home…
Bayreuth Festival decides on austerity plan. – Culture
The board of directors of the Bayreuth Festival has decided to make savings at the world-famous opera festival. The economic plan presented by the management had been approved, said the…