After coming off the Motel / Route 66 Rheingold, overloaded and exciting, weird and captivating, Frank Castorf’s Walküre must seem conventional. Or maybe it should be called Aleksandar Denić ...

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Die Walküre, Bayreuth Festival: a fine cast, but this fails to take full flight Part two of Valentin Schwarz’s stripped-back Ring cycle has plenty of surprises up its sleeve, but not always for ...

Bayreuth - Erleichterung in Bayreuth. Der Wotan-Sänger, der in der "Walküre"-Premiere eine Unfall erlitten hatte und die Vorstellung abbrechen musste, ist auf dem Weg der Besserung. Das ...

Ist Netflix zu klein für Wagners „Ring des Nibelungen“? Gestern schien es in Bayreuth noch so. Auch deshalb habe ich heute vor der „Walküre“ erst einmal meinen „Geldermann“-Gutschein eingelöst. Doch ...

This week he recalls Hildegarde Beherens as Brunnhilde in Wagner's Die Walkure from his production of The Ring at Bayreuth. 'Hildegarde sang radiantly and behaved throughout the summer like a ...

By Zachary Woolfe Zachary Woolfe saw Wagner’s “Ring,” “Tannhäuser” and “Parsifal” (twice) during a week at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany. After the enormous risk of its beginning ...