The centerpiece of Bayreuth's 150th-anniversary season was the first performance ever of Richard Wagner's “youth work” Rienzi in the Festspielhaus. Rienzi has never belonged to the traditional ten-work Bayreuth canon, so staging Wagner's only grand opera on the Green Hill was a genuine experiment. Since 2026 marks 150 years since the first Bayreuth Festival of August 1876, the opening days carried extra[...]
Whenever the Ring is staged in its entirety, it becomes a major international event—particularly at a world-renowned opera house such as the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden. From September 27 […]
It’s back! For the second time the Metropolitan Opera has revived Robert Lepage’s much loathed production of Wagner’s epic tetralogy, which is famously dominated by a vast mechanical contraption (“the […]