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2023-08-30 06:28:00
[…] Mime’s last resting-place. Herr Schwarz, I feel, possesses an ironic sense of humour which comes to the fore in this scene inasmuch as Nothung’s pulled from Mime’s disabled crutch and used as a swordstick. Anyway, it was surplus to requirements. The pupil outstrips the master as always. Siegfried tricks the old trickster for one last time. The third act of Siegfried sees Brünnhilde (sung by Daniela Köhler) with Grane, acted by Igor Schwab, approaching Siegfried through Reinhard Traub’s flooded lemon-green stage with a cosmetic surgery bandaged head (a flashback to her Valkyrie days) representing, I guess, the barrier between the couple (usually represented by a ring of fire) and the highlight to the whole of the opera as well as being a magical piece of theatre at the same time. When she gets ‘unbandaged’ by her super-charged hero ready to greet the sun and light in that big expressive and telling number ‘Heil […]
2023-08-25 08:13:00
[…] Festival (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath)As 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 […]
2023-08-17 11:40:00
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 […]
2022-08-06 20:41:00
Bayreuth Festival (4): Götterdämmerung, 5 August 2022
FestspielhausSiegfried – Clay Hilley Gunther – Michael Kupfer-Radecky Alberich – Olafur Sigurdarson Hagen – Albert Dohmen Brünnhilde – Iréne Theorin Gutrune – Elisabeth Teige Waltraute – Christa Meyer First Norn – Okka von der Damerau Second Norn – Stéphanie Müther Third Norn – Kelly God Woglinde – Lee-an Dunbar Wellgunde – Stephanie Houtzeel Flosshilde – Katie Stevenson Grane – Igor Schwab Valentin Schwarz (director) Andrea Cozzi (designs) Andy Besuch (costumes) Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy) Reinhard Traub (lighting) Luis August Krawen (video)Bayreuth Festival Chorus (chorus master: Eberhard Friedrich)Bayreuth Festival OrchestraCornelius Meister (conductor) Valentin Schwarz’s Ring ends more or less where it began, bar curtain-calls in which the long-awaited appearance of Schwarz and his team was greeted by the most intensive booing I have ever heard. I suppose a ‘cyclical’ turn will appeal to some who insist on referring to the Ring as a ‘cycle’, when it is nothing of the sort. Even […]
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