The time of the year when all night activities come to a standstill, for the sake of catching live broadcasts of Wagner’s operas live from Bayreuth. This year’s programme runs from the 25th of July to the 28th of August. Here are the festival dates: Friday 25 July Parsifal I…
Poor musicians…
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.. stuck in the orchestral pit for hours. Looks like they can’t understand it or stand it 😛 Read all about it here. That is, if you understand german.
Der Ring des Nibelungen: Die Walküre
0The Ring cycle has started! 🙂 4 nights of more wunderbar music, directed and performed by possibly the best around. The conflict between power or love, which cannot co-exist. Love between siblings, between father and daughter.. and the quest and search for power. Such genius in his writing, that he…
Tannhäuser
0It’s now 3:ooam, and I’ve just finished listening to Tannhäuser. The music, the orchestra, the singers… Marvelous orchestration, pitch-perfect singers, with the orchestra accompaniment that’s so sensitive, this must surely be one of the highest-levels of performing: doing such a tiring programme (stretches as long as 5 hours or more)…
2007 Bayreuther Festspiele
0The 2007 Bayreuther Festspiele is here, and everyone’s blogging about it! It opened yesterday with Die Meistersinger, directed by 29-year old Katharina Wagner, great-grand-daughter of Richard Wagner. Here’s rest of the programme for the opening week:26 Jul: Tannhäuser27 Jul: Das Rheingold28 Jul: Die Walküre30 Jul: Siegfried01 Aug: Götterdämmerung02 Aug: Parsifal…