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Classical music, opera, ballet and dance in Bayreuth, Germany

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BayreuthGuest in Bayreuth

© Jurga Anusauskiene
Friedrichsforum, Fri 30 Oct at 20:00
Šerkšnytė, Schumann, Schumann C., Čiurlionis
Bamberg Symphony; Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla; Onutė Gražinytė; Julia Lindhorst-Apfelthaler; Stephan Ullrich
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BayreuthGuest at Musica Bayreuth

© Radovan Subin
Margravial Opera House, Sat 19 Jun at 19:30
Zelenka, Mysliveček, Mozart
Bamberg Symphony; Václav Luks; Josef Špaček Jr
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Götterdämmerung in Bayreuth: the AI Ring’s final coup?

Götterdämmerung © Enrico Nawrath | Bayreuther Festspiele
Alexandra Richter, 09 Aug
Marcus Lobbes’ AI Ring is drawing to a close. The tension between musical excellence and the underwhelming production is clearly palpable.
***11
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Siegfried at the Bayreuth Festival: a Rorschach test, Wagner-style

Siegfried © Enrico Nawrath | Bayreuther Festspiele
Alexandra Richter, 07 Aug
Once again, one looks in vain for visual coherence in this production of Siegfried, but the cast of this Ring cycle will remain unrivalled for a long time to come.
*****
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Artificiality over art: Die Walküre at Bayreuth

Die Walküre © Enrico Nawrath | Bayreuther Festspiele
Alexandra Richter, 05 Aug
In Die Walküre, we once again delve into absurd AI-generated visual worlds and disjointed associations. Musically, however, this Ring cycle remains well worth listening to.
***11
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Bayreuth 150: reflections from the Green Hill

Fanfare on the Festspielhaus balcony © Meike Kratzer
Bachtrack, 03 Jul
The Bayreuth Festival will celebrate its anniversary season in 2026. It has been a pilgrimage site for Wagnerians for 150 years, with Bachtrack attending regularly since 2014. We asked our reviewers to share their fondest memories with us.
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Richard Wagner und die historische Aufführungspraxis

Jens Klier, 20 Aug
Auch wenn es „den einen unwiderruflichen Originalklang nicht geben kann", Concerto Köln und Kent Nagano versuchen sich dennoch an Wagners Ring.
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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
Danny Riley, 04 Jul
Hanging around in graveyards isn’t just the reserve of goths: here are the places classical fans of a morbid persuasion should go.
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