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Wagner: Parsifal
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Pablo Heras-Casado; Miina-Liisa Värelä; Andreas Schager; Jordan Shanahan; Georg Zeppenfeld

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Wagner
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Pablo Heras-Casado; Katharina Wagner; Catherine Foster; Klaus Florian Vogt; Nicholas Brownlee

SevilleBayreuth Festival Orchestra / Gala Wagner

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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen: extraits
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Pablo Heras-Casado; Katharina Wagner; Catherine Foster; Klaus Florian Vogt; Nicholas Brownlee

MadridGira de la Orquesta del Festival de Bayreuth

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Wagner
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Pablo Heras-Casado; Katharina Wagner; Catherine Foster; Klaus Florian Vogt; Nicholas Brownlee

BayreuthDer fliegende Holländer

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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)
Oksana Lyniv; Dmitri Tcherniakov; Elena Zaytseva; Gleb Filshtinsky; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

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Wagner: Parsifal
Pablo Heras-Casado; Jay Scheib; Mimi Lien; Meentje Nielsen; Rainer Casper; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
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Götterdämmerung in Bayreuth: the AI Ring’s final coup?

Götterdämmerung © Enrico Nawrath | Bayreuther Festspiele
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
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
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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Das Rheingold at the Bayreuth Festival: “404 Regie not found”

Das Rheingold © Enrico Nawrath | Bayreuther Festspiele
Fans of Regietheater and purists alike are in for a rough ride with this new AI-generated Ring at the Bayreuth Festival, although Christian Thielemann delivers a memorable performance to mark the 150th anniversary.
***11
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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

Despite many perceptive details, Bayreuth's new Ring culminates in a rather damp squib of an ending.
***11
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