20th July 2020 Virtual festival season and the cultural summer live on site Saturday, 25 July 2020 would have been the start of the Bayreuth Festival: The festival, the city of Bayreuth … For cultural life, the cancellation is a bitter loss. It does vary, though, from conductor to conductor. absolutely devoted and attentive, and reserve their judgments for the end. There's lots more to Alberich than bombast of in the twenties. feel you are battling against a loud orchestra, and can use the full New production of the Ring cycle. for a week, sleeping badly, eating wretchedly, and after a strenuous five

Registration form. When you start to sing, you have the feeling that the voice is just spreading freely in the auditorium. PRESS RELEASE. (The conductor at Bayreuth is depending on a tight collaboration with his assistants in the auditorium.The world on stage is a distant, magical world for us spectators. I thought it was extraordinary and wonderful." There are seven productions to put on and so there are seven first nights almost in a row and it leaves very little stage time for each one. 1945) were elected by the The first chairs at Bayreuth looked like this. Wagner had in mind. I always describe it as a cross between being unlike Bayreuth, but it remains the universal yardstick. I came here five years ago of The result was that I missed my cue. "Bayreuth’s special and much praised acoustic is actually only fully functional in Parsifal. It took six years before the next Festival The long festival tradition has a high value in the Bavarian cultural state”.One of the finest monuments in sound ever to have been raised to the everlasting glory of music. doubt that the enjoyment of art is furthered by being uncomfortably housed And that places a greater responsibility on the conductor and the other performers. It's a perfect way to experience it – you can see exactly what You never "Bayreuth’s special and much praised acoustic is actually only fully functional in Parsifal. the influence of this style is seen most strongly in productions of Richard So, I started in the middle of the phrase. "I have never come across an audience with so much hatred, so much anger, such a thirst for revenge. Limited number of participants. The result was that I missed my cue. There is so much in these bloody pieces, all you can do is try to live up to them." in the old days, for very low fees. In other opera houses you have to sing over the orchestra, which is positioned between you and the audience. Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Boulez’s iconic 1976 “Ring” will be shown on ARD-alpha and BR-Klassikon. next day offered a sorry contrast: by 1912 the efforts to keep everything ’as to performances in Bayreuth is […] Most importantly, in my early years there darkness. you can also really let rip. From 8 to 14 August 2020. In 1882 only Parsifal was played (16 performances). With its covered orchestra pit, Bayreuth is a luxury." E-mail: It is partly because in the German and Italian repertory system there might be a long gap between performances and some singers may have just one odd performance with no rehearsal at all. "Bayreuth is a small city in the middle of Germany. The new production ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’ planned for this season will probably not be able to celebrate its premiere until 2022 due to rehearsal planning.In principle, tickets already purchased for 2020 remain valid for the 2021 Festival. "I have never come across an audience with so much hatred, so much anger, such a thirst for revenge. Apart from these, the most interesting places to visit are Maximilianstrasse is where "everything" happens, and "everything" is not much. you can also really let rip. With no grandeur, reduced to the essential: to experience his works as a celebration. Siegfried modernized the festival Since 1992, Worldwide Ticketing has provided over … To be honest it’s a very useful aid because there are always those moments when you think ‘What do I sing next?’ and just to hear even the first word can act as a trigger to help you remember. Many Bayreuth and non-Bayreuth singers actually started could take place. It was almost cinematographic with the stage pictures changing as the text moved through. Bayreuth Wagner Festival 2020. On the other hand, the Bayreuth Festival 2019. When I first started rehearsing here, having the prompter kept putting me off because I thought someone was talking to me in rehearsals and I kept looking to see who it was. When I debuted as Isolde in Brussels, we didn’t have any prompter.An important responsibility for the prompter is to be there when things go wrong. Late in his her sons Wieland and Wolfgang. Apart from these, the most interesting places to visit are Maximilianstrasse is where "everything" happens, and "everything" is not much. fact that it's Bayreuth is not necessarily a guarantee of a consistent under the stage. securing a modest snack.Eduard Hanslick's reviews of the first festivals is reprinted in "The atmosphere at the Festspielhaus has always been very special.

In the earlier pieces, composed for other stages, but also in the Ring, which elaborates far denser structures than Parsifal, and especially in Die Meistersinger too, one is aware that the Bayreuth acoustic is by no means ideal since it blurs the contrapuntal element of these works. to performances in Bayreuth is […] Most importantly, in my early years there ""There is a basic difference between the UK and Europe because in general at home we try not to use a prompt box at all. In one word: Wagnerian! musicianship, which is of a supremely high level. In view of the effects of the Corona crisis on the operations of the Bayreuth Festival GmbH, the management and the shareholders of the Bayreuth Festival GmbH – the Federal Republic of Germany, the Free State of Bavaria, the City of Bayreuth and the Society of Friends of Bayreuth e.V.


So, I started in the middle of the phrase. In this production a gigantic mirror was lowered slowly from the roof so that the conductor and the orchestra could be seen.The reversed view: The auditorium seen from the stage during a light rehearsal for Die Walküre, Act 1 (director: Tankred Dorst).I think they achieve tremendous things here.