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Venue: Bayreuther Festspielhaus

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AddressFestspielhügel 2
95445 Bayreuth
Bavaria
Germany
Google maps49° 57' 36.072" N 11° 34' 45.336" E
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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

BayreuthRienzi, der Letze der TribunenNew production

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Wagner: Rienzi, der Letze der Tribunen
Nathalie Stutzmann; Alexandra Szemerédy; Magdolna Parditka

BayreuthDas RheingoldNew production

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Wagner: Das Rheingold
Christian Thielemann; Marcus Lobbes; Wolf Gutjahr; Pia Maria Mackert; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Nils Corte

BayreuthDie WalküreNew production

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Wagner: Die Walküre
Christian Thielemann; Marcus Lobbes; Wolf Gutjahr; Pia Maria Mackert; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Nils Corte

BayreuthDer fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)

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

BayreuthSiegfriedNew production

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Wagner: Siegfried
Christian Thielemann; Marcus Lobbes; Wolf Gutjahr; Pia Maria Mackert; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Nils Corte

BayreuthParsifal

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Wagner: Parsifal
Pablo Heras-Casado; Jay Scheib; Mimi Lien; Meentje Nielsen; Rainer Casper; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

BayreuthGötterdämmerungNew production

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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Christian Thielemann; Marcus Lobbes; Wolf Gutjahr; Pia Maria Mackert; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Bayreuth Festival Chorus
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Parsifal in Augmented Reality at the Bayreuth Festival

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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

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Despite many perceptive details, Bayreuth's new Ring culminates in a rather damp squib of an ending.
***11
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Drunk on ambition: Siegfried takes us deeper into a forest of ideas

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Will Siegfried get his girl? Will she turn out to be his sister? And has the ultimate prize already got into the wrong hands? More posers from Bayreuth's intriguing new Ring.
****1
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From birth to death: Die Walküre gets some interesting plot twists

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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.
*****
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Family saga: Bayreuth's new Rheingold presents a story of today

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The Bayreuth Festival's new Ring gets off to a promising start with a tautly directed Rheingold, but will we find out what it all means?
****1
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Uwe Eric Laufenberg’s Bayreuth take on Parsifal

Despite its enigmatic details, Bayreuth's Parsifal reaches a cathartic climax. 
****1
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Bayreuth's Lohengrin lacks electricity

Yuval Sharon's production returns to Bayreuth in a musically compelling performance. 
***11
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Kosky’s Meistersinger conquers Bayreuth again

Kosky’s production manages to maintain all hallmarks of a 16th-century fairy tale, while juxtaposing them with questions of deep human, political and artistic problems. Regietheater at its best.
*****
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