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2023-08-30 06:28:00
[…] moment in act two (The Vassals’ Chorus) hauntingly wearing fiery-red winged helmet face masks but looking more like a skulk of foxes ready for the kill. Wagner: Siegfried - Act Two - Andreas Schager, Tomasz Konieczny, Olafur Sigurdarason, Tobias Kehrer, Branko Buchberger- Bayreuth Festival 2023(Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath)Creative team Conductor: Pietari Inkinen Director: Valentin Schwarz Stage designer: Andrea Cozzi Costume designer: Andy Besuch Lighting designer: Reinhard Traub Dramaturg: Konrad Kuhn Chorus master: Eberhard Friedrich Das Rheingold Wotan: Tomasz Konieczny Donner: Raimund Nolte Froh: Attilio Glaser Loge: Daniel Kirch Fricka: Christa Mayer Freia: Hailey Clark Erda: Okka von der Damerau Alberich: Olafur Sigurdarson Mime: Arnold Bezuyen Fasolt: Jens-Erik Aasbø Fafner: Tobias Kehrer Woglinde: Evelin Novak Wellgunde: Stephanie Houtzeel Floßhilde: Simone Schröder Die Walküre […]
2023-08-25 08:13:00
[…] an aside, the first production I saw of Tannhäuser was by Carl Rosa at Norwich Theatre Royal in 1958. My first Wagnerian and, indeed, one of my first opera experiences. Therefore, if Tannhäuser was one of Wagner’s favourites, it’s certainly one of mine, too. The opera simply hooked me on Wagner. Full stop! Reviewed by Tony CooperConductor: Nathalie Stutzmann Director: Tobias Kratzer Stage/costume designer: Rainer Sellmaier Lighting designer: Reinhard Traub Video designer: Manuel Braun Dramaturgy: Konrad Kuhn Chorus master: Eberhard Friedrich Hermann, Landgraf of Thuringia: Günther Groissböck Tannhäuser: Klaus Florian Vogt Wolfram von Eschenbach: Markus Eiche Walther von der Vogelweide: Siyabonga Maqungo Biterolf: Olafur Sigurdarson Heinrich der Schreiber: Jorge Rodríguez-Norton Reinmar von Zweter: Jens-Erik Aasbø Elisabeth, Nichte des Landgrafen: Elisabeth Teige Venus: Ekaterina Gubanova Ein junger Hirt: Julia Grüter. Le Gateau Chocolat: Le Gateau Chocolat Oskar: Manni Laudenbach Never miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if […]
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Bayreuth Festival (3) - Tannhäuser, 16 August 2023
Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, 16.8.2023 (MB) Hermann, Landgrave of Thuringia - Günter Groissböck Tannhäuser - Klaus Florian Vogt Wolfram von Eschenbach - Markus Eiche Walther von der Vogelweide - Siyabonga Maqungo Biterolf - Olafur Sigurdarson Heinrich der Schreiber - Jorge Rodriguez-Norton Reinmar von Zweter - Jens-Erik Aasbø Elisabeth - Elisabeth Teige Venus - Ekaterina Gubanova Young Shepherd - Julia Grüter Le Gateau Chocolat - Le Gateau Chocolat Oskar - Manni Laudenbach Pages - Cornelia Heil, Ekaterina Gubanova, Laura Margaret Smith, Karolin ZeinertTobias Kratzer (director)Rainer Sellmaier (designs)Manuel Braun (video)Reinhard Traub (lighting)Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy)Bayreuth Festival Chorus (chorus director: Eberhard Friedrich)Bayreuth Festival OrchestraNathalie Stutzmann (conductor) For my third and final Bayreuth performance this year, I revisited an old friend, Tobias Kratzer’s Tannhäuser. New when we met in 2019, it has weathered the pandemic storm and since assumed something close to classic status. Not that, like any of us during that or indeed any other four-year […]
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