Breaking news, eagerly anticipated! The Bayreuth Festival in Cinemas, on the Wireless and Television. Copied directly from the July 13, 2022 Gesellschaft newsletter. For all those who are unable to come to Bayreuth this Summer, there are ways of experiencing the Festival from home. Ring Cycle II and other performances will be reviewed in upcoming issues of Wagner Notes.

• Götterdämmerung is scheduled for broadcasting this year. On Friday, 5th August, numerous cinemas in Germany and abroad will be showing the performance from the Festspielhaus with a time lag. A list of participating cinemas has been published here.
• The première performance can be seen on BR-KLASSIK Concert at 4 p.m. as a video live stream.
• You can see Götterdämmerung on television on Monday, 6th August, beginning at 8.15 Uhr p.m. 3sat is showing the recording as part of its Festival Summer 2022 programme.
• UPDATE to Bayreuth streaming information: The August 5 live stream of Götterdämmerung will be restricted to Germany (BR-Klassik), Austria (3sat), and Japan (via NHK). For viewing outside these regions, you can click here to purchase a ticket to watch the performance from DG-Stage. The stream will be available for one week.

Radio Broadcasts
Wireless broadcasts by ARD. As part of the ARD Radio Festival, the following performances will be broadcast from the Bayreuth Festspielhaus:

• 25th July, 3.57 p.m., live broadcast of the première of Tristan und Isolde
• 31st July, 8.00 p.m., Das Rheingold broadcast from the Festspielhaus with time lag
• 1st August, 8.00 p.m., Die Walküre, broadcast from the Festspielhaus with time lag
• 3rd August, 8.00 p.m., Siegfried, broadcast from the Festspielhaus with time lag
• 5th August, 8.00 p.m., Götterdämmerung, broadcast from the Festspielhaus with time lag

The following stations are joining in the broadcast: BR-KLASSIK, Bayern2, Bremen Zwei, hr2 Kultur, MDR Kultur, NDR Kultur, rbb Kultur, SR2 Kulturradio, SWR2, WDR 3.

Radio Broadcasts by Bayerischer Rundfunk
You can also hear the opening of the Bayreuth Festival on the wireless on 25th July on BR-KLASSIK. At 3.05 p.m., the programme “Curtain up in Bayreuth. A Festival Magazine" hosted by Antonia Goldhammer will be broadcast. The première of the performance of Tristan und Isolde will then be broadcast live at 5.57 p.m. Other broadcasts on BR-Klassik (wireless)

• 31st July, 8.04 p.m. Das Rheingold, broadcast from the Festspielhaus with time lag
• 1st August, 8.04 p.m. Die Walküre, broadcast from the Festspielhaus with time lag
• 3rd August, 8.04 p.m. Siegfried, broadcast from the Festspielhaus with time lag
• 5th August, 8.04 p.m. Götterdämmerung, broadcast from the Festspielhaus with time lag

Preview:

• 24th September, 7.05 p.m., Lohengrin, recording
• 22nd October, 7.05 p.m., Tannhäuser, recording
• 19th November, 7.05 p.m., Der fliegende Holländer, recording

The full programme and further information on the various dates are published on the website of BR-Klassik.

Digital programmes
The Bayreuth Festival is once again offering the programmes in digital form this year. You can purchase the programmes for the curent productions at https://programmhefte.bayreuther-festspiele.de/

Der fliegende Holländer on DVD and Blue-Ray
Dmitri Tcherniakov’s production of Der fliegende Holländer conducted by Oksana Lyniv from 2021 has been released on DVD and Blu-Ray by Deutsche Grammophon.

Haus Wahnfried will present lectures and programs during July and August. Please see their website.

The Bayreuth Festival has released the 2022 schedule. A new production has been added: Tristan und Isolde, which will open the Festival on July 25. It will be conducted by Cornelius Meister and directed by Roland Schwab. Schwab studied musical theater production in Hamburg under Götz Friedrich. Full casts for all operas are on the Bayreuth Festival website: Ring cycles, Tristan, Der fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, and Concert (two concerts at the conclusion of the Festival to be conducted by Andris Nelsons).

Three cycles of a new production of the Ring, conducted by Pietari Inkinen and directed by Valentin Schwarz, originally announced for 2020, will finally see the light of day. One opera from this production, Die Walküre, was presented in 2021.

The Festival will also present “Diskurs Bayreuth”: ancillary events that will include Festspiel Open Air, the Blue Hour (stroll on the Grüner Hügel, with Wagner’s music), and “Nach Tristan” (journey from the past back to the present). This is an evening between Wagner and Heiner Müller, with texts by both Müller and Wagner and music by Wagner, in a stage presentation in the Kulturbühne Reichshof on July 26, 28, and 30. Also, the children’s opera (this year: Tristan –July 25-Aug. 4), masterclasses, and events presented by the Gesellschaft.

Tickets: If you have requested to be on the WSNY ticket list, we will be in further touch when we know what tickets and dates we will be allotted.

Gesellschaft members will be sent full information on the Festival with order forms in mid-March.
Schedule of performances:

July
25 • Tristan und Isolde
26 • Diskurs Bayreuth: “Nach Tristan”
27 • Festspiel Open Air
28 • Diskurs Bayreuth: “Nach Tristan”
29 • No performance
30 • Diskurs Bayreuth: “Nach Tristan”
31 • Ring Cycle I • Das Rheingold

August
1 • Die Walküre
2 • Festspiel Open Air
3 • Siegfried
4 • Lohengrin
5 • Götterdämmerung
6 • Der fliegende Holländer  
7 • Lohengrin
8 • Tannhäuser
9 • No performance
10 • Ring Cycle II • Das Rheingold
11 • Die Walküre
12 • Tristan und Isolde
13 • Siegfried
14 • Lohengrin
15 • Götterdämmerung
16 • Der fliegende Holländer
17 • No performance
18 • Tannhäuser
19 • Lohengrin
20 • Der fliegende Holländer
21 • Tannhäuser
22 • Lohengrin
23 • No performance
24 • Tannhäuser
25 • Ring Cycle III • Das Rheingold
26 • Die Walküre
27 • Der fliegende Holländer
28 • Siegfried
29 • No performance
30 • Götterdämmerung
31 • Concert
September 1 • Concert

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