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Chor der Bayreuther Festspiele © Bayreuth Festspiele | Enrico Nawrath

Season finale: a disappointing ending to Bayreuth's Götterdämmerung

By Matthew Rye, 15 August 2022

Despite many perceptive details, Bayreuth's new Ring culminates in a rather damp squib of an ending.

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***11

Bayreuth

15 Aug 2022

Season finale: a disappointing ending to Bayreuth's Götterdämmerung

By Matthew Rye

Tomasz Konieczny (Wotan), Georg Zeppenfeld (Hunding) and Christa Mayer (Fricka) © Bayreuth Festspiele | Enrico Nawrath

From birth to death: Wagner’s Die Walküre gets some interesting plot twists

By Matthew Rye, 11 August 2022

The plot thickens as "episode two" of Bayreuth's new Ring muddies the waters of Siegfried’s paternity and Wotan comes to regret his actions.

*****

*****

Bayreuth

11 Aug 2022

From birth to death: Die Walküre gets some interesting plot twists

By Matthew Rye

Lohengrin as chamber opera in Patrick Bialdyga's expanded Leipzig production

By Ako Imamura, 26 March 2022

A new production of Lohengrin at Oper Leipzig is conceived as an intimate chamber opera and succeeds with brilliant musical performances.

*****

*****

Leipzig

26 Mar 2022

Lohengrin as chamber opera in Patrick Bialdyga's Leipzig production

By Ako Imamura