Bayreuth’s opera "Rienzi" premiered under a cloud of controversy — and the arguments haven’t stopped since opening night.
Alexandra Szemerédy and Magdolna Parditka’s production swaps 14th-century Rome for an abstract near future in an over-busy staging . Jennifer Holloway’s Adriano is a standout in a strong cast ...
Bayreuth’s opera "Rienzi" premiered under a cloud of controversy — and the arguments haven’t stopped since opening night.
Row over Jewish guest speaker at Bayreuth’s 150th anniversary reopens questions about Richard Wagner’s anti-Semitism and ...
The Bayreuth Festival, where Wagner’s operas have been performed for 150 years, is inconvenient and unpleasant. Why does it ...
Calls for the composer’s descendants to relinquish their hold are growing but that would risk robbing the event of its USP ...
During Germany's last 150 years, a king has been dethroned, a kaiser has abdicated, and a dictator has fallen, but on the Green Hill in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth, one thing has stood the test of ...
The Atlanta Opera will present Ring Festival 2029, two full cycles of performances of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the ...
In the long intervals that the programme at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus allows between the individual acts of its operas, ...