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[...]
Nicholas Vazsonyi
August 2025
Staging Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Germany, and especially at Bayreuth, has been a challenge since World War II ended. Its unbridled celebration of German art and culture has been […]
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