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2023-08-24 06:45:00
The Bayreuth Festival is thrust into a new age, the digital age, by the application of Augmented Reality in a ground-breaking new production of Wagner's Parsifal
[…] me) but overall got the thumbs down. Extraordinarily, it’s now being hailed as a worthy and progressive production by many Wagnerites I meet on my travels. Wagner: Parsifal - Bayreuth Festival (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath)Interestingly, the Bayreuth Festival has been led by a member of the Wagner clan since the death of Richard Wagner in 1883 while Katharina Wagner, his great-granddaughter, took over the joint artistic directorship of the festival with her half-sister, Eva Wagner-Pasquier, from their father, Wolfgang, in 2008, while becoming sole artistic director in 2015. As her contract comes up for renewal soon, Katharina Wagner has firmly stated that if an offer came her way (and I sincerely hope it does) she would only accept the post on condition that changes are made to the festival’s organisation. She further added that ‘if Bayreuth just wants traditional-style productions audiences might as well sit at home and watch […]
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2022-08-02 18:05:49
The Wagner heiress Eva Wagner-Pasquier, who was dragged... The post Good news: Eva Wagner leaves hospital a year after drowning incident appeared first on Slippedisc.
2020-06-08 07:55:20
Adventures on the Green Hill: Tony Cooper explores Richard Wagner's villa Wahnfried at Bayreuth
[…] choice other than to pass the mantle on to her sons, Wieland and Wolfgang, who were successful in re-launching the Bayreuth Festival in 1951. After Wieland’s untimely death in 1966 aged 49, Wolfgang (who was presented with a flashy Mercedes car by the Führer after passing his driving test) stayed at the crease notching up a remarkable 57-year tally retiring in 2008 one day ahead of his 90th birthday. Wolfgang’s daughters, Katharina Wagner and Eva Wagner-Pasquier, succeeded their father but since 2015 Katharina has been the sole Bayreuth Festival director following Eva’s retirement. A strong-minded person, Winifred wasn’t afraid to speak out against Hitler and was reported to be ‘disgusted’ by his persecution of the Jews and in one notable incident in the late thirties a letter from her to Hitler prevented Alfred and Hedwig Pringsheim (their daughter Katia was married to the German writer, Thomas Mann) from being arrested […]
2020-06-01 07:09:55
Adventures on the Green Hill: with no Bayreuth Festival this year, Tony Cooper looks back at previous festivals
[…] audiences saw as an outrage and the breaking up of a most ‘sacred German Wagner tradition’. And Patrice Chéreau’s politically-motivated centenary Ring in 1976 didn’t quite tick with the faithful either but today, surprisingly, it’s now hailed as masterpiece. C’est la vie! or if you like So ist das Leben! And Katharina Wagner’s 2010 production of Meistersinger - her first production at Bayreuth on becoming co-director of the festival in 2008 with her half-sister, Eva Pasquier-Wagner, following in their father’s footsteps - proved a challenging production and caused a flutter among the dovecotes, too. She infamously ditched the well-loved singing competition for a painting competition while setting the action in the freewheeling and glorious Sixties. The production didn’t score a hit with everyone but I found it to my liking and enjoyed seeing it again. The protests continue! Will they ever stop, I wonder? But change, I feel, is necessary […]
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