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BayreuthGuest in Bayreuth

© Jurga Anusauskiene
Šerkšnytė, Schumann, Schumann C., Čiurlionis
Bamberg Symphony; Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla; Onutė Gražinytė; Julia Lindhorst-Apfelthaler; Stephan Ullrich

BayreuthGuest at Musica Bayreuth

© Radovan Subin
Zelenka, Mysliveček, Mozart
Bamberg Symphony; Václav Luks; Josef Špaček Jr

BayreuthBeethoven Symphony no. 9

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Wagner, Beethoven
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Christian Thielemann; Elza van den Heever; Christa Mayer; Piotr Beczała; Georg Zeppenfeld
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Masked marvels and Venetian mischief: Cavalli at Bayreuth Baroque

Max Emanuel Cenčić (Pompeo) and Valer Sabadus (Scipione Servilio) © Clemens Manser Photography
In the intimate splendour of the Margravial Opera House, Bayreuth Baroque revives Cavalli’s Pompeo Magno with a riot of colors, eight masked countertenors and a Tiepolo-like air of playful chaos.
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Parsifal in Augmented Reality at the Bayreuth Festival

Elīna Garanča (Kundry) © Enrico Nawrath
Jay Scheib spices up the visual experience with digital content in his production of Parsifal. Sounds good. But is it?
***11
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Season finale: a disappointing ending to Bayreuth's Götterdämmerung

Chor der Bayreuther Festspiele © Bayreuth Festspiele | Enrico Nawrath
Despite many perceptive details, Bayreuth's new Ring culminates in a rather damp squib of an ending.
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Richard Wagner und die historische Aufführungspraxis

Auch wenn es „den einen unwiderruflichen Originalklang nicht geben kann", Concerto Köln und Kent Nagano versuchen sich dennoch an Wagners Ring.

Ten final resting places of famous composers

The gravestone of Antonio Salieri in the Vienna Central Cemetary (gate 2, group 0, row 1, number 54) © Eva Maria Mandl | Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA-4.0
Hanging around in graveyards isn’t just the reserve of goths: here are the places classical fans of a morbid persuasion should go.