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Des sitcoms au blockbuster : avec Siegfried, le Ring de Bayreuth s'émancipe

Siegfried au Festival de Bayreuth
© Enrico Nawrath
Siegfried au Festival de Bayreuth
© Enrico Nawrath
Siegfried au Festival de Bayreuth
© Enrico Nawrath
Siegfried au Festival de Bayreuth
© Enrico Nawrath
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“À force de vouloir raconter sa propre histoire, Valentin Schwarz rend le tout confus”
Reviewed at Bayreuther Festspielhaus, Bayreuth on 23 August 2024
Wagner, Siegfried
Simone Young, Conductor
Valentin Schwarz, Director
Andrea Cozzi, Set Designer
Andy Besuch, Costume Designer
Nicol Hungsberg, Lighting Designer
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
Klaus Florian Vogt, Siegfried
Ya-Chung Huang, Mime
Tomasz Konieczny, Der Wanderer
Catherine Foster, Brünnhilde
Ólafur Sigurdarson, Alberich
Tobias Kehrer, Fafner
Okka von der Damerau, Erda
Alexandra Steiner, Waldvogel (the woodbird)
Season finale: a disappointing ending to Bayreuth's Götterdämmerung
***11
Drunk on ambition: Siegfried takes us deeper into a forest of ideas
****1
From birth to death: Die Walküre gets some interesting plot twists
*****
Family saga: Bayreuth's new Rheingold presents a story of today
****1
Gebrochene Liebe, zerbrochner Krug: Opern-Einakter in Weimar
****1
Happy end pour le Ring de Bayreuth selon Valentin Schwarz
****1
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