Hermann Grampp
May 2024

Parsifal: A Good Friday Play. To perform Parsifal on Easter has been and still is a tradition in many an opera house in Germany. Whereas the Bavarian State Opera in Munich used to reserve this privilege for Good Friday, this year’s Parsifal series started on Easter Sunday and continued with three more performances in early April. While Pierre Audi’s production of June 2018 has not improved essentially – the[...]

Erick Neher
November 2019

As usual, Meistersinger closed out the annual Munich Opera Festival, a month-long celebration at what many feel is the finest opera house in the world today. That reputation is certainly built on […]