Tag Archives: Bayreuth

Bayreuth Meistersinger 2017

Barry Kosky’s new production of Die Meistersinger at Bayreuth is a polemic, suggesting that, in creating the role of Sixtus Beckmesser, Wagner intended to warn his audiences to reject the harmful influence of Jews on the integrity of German art.  Kosky asks further whether, in feeding this pernicious strain of German anti-Semitism, Wagner, along with […]

September 13, 2017 – 2:00 pm | By peterp | Posted in The Wagner Blog | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Interesting Collection of Reviews of Current Bayreuth Offerings

A useful and robust, if perhaps not mainstream, group of review of the Bayreuth season’s offerings is available at http://wagneropera.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-bayreuth-festival-2016.html and well worth a visit.

September 5, 2016 – 11:41 am | By peterp | Posted in The Wagner Blog | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Definitive Book on the Bayreuth Festspielhaus

This past summer I was experiencing the regret of the “more mature” Wagnerian, when rummaging through the bookstores in Bayreuth.  These places were my treasure troves 30 years ago.  Now, I realized with the vague remorse of increasing age that I either had these books or knew of them and decided not to acquire them.  […]

December 11, 2012 – 1:14 pm | By peterp | Posted in The Wagner Blog | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

Bayreuth Tannhauser

In a perceptive (if wordy and miserably edited) article in the program for this summer’s Bayreuth Tännhauser, Edward A. Bortnichak and Paula M. Bortnichak explain the intellectual basis of Sebastian Baumgarten’s production.  It has to do with “bioethics,” or how technological progress may have an adverse influence on traditional (i.e., romantic) notions of human sensibilities, morality, and “rights.”

October 29, 2012 – 10:34 am | By peterp | Posted in The Wagner Blog | Tagged , , | Comments (4)