Friday, July 29, 2011
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
A much (de)served prize
Would DonaldDuck be Bayreuth’s Festspielleiter, he would certainly be awarded this prize.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Christmas breaking-news
So it appears that in 2013 – in Bayreuth - we’ll have around just marzipan-Wagner-busts, t-shirts and beer-cans carrying Richard’s image.
Well deserved?
Well deserved?
Monday, July 27, 2009
Festival’s false start
Last weekend was really bad for Bayreuth: an opening Tristan, that only the VIPs have appreciated (but, you know, they’re there for free, can show their toilettes and smokings, talk to the TVs, but in the end are perfect ignorants). Witnesses tell us that the Tristan performed in Stuttgart three days before was by far of a higher level.
Sunday’s Meistersinger wasn’t so bad from the musical standpoint. Pity that the Regisseurin was a Kathi Wagner (incidentally, co-Festspielleiterin from this edition). Apparently, her Regietheater (aka Eurotrash) staging, albeit revised from the 2007 original, has just brought the audience to exasperation and millions of people in the world could hear by radio the much deserved boohs and insults for that crazy havoc of one of Richard’s masterpieces.
Sunday’s Meistersinger wasn’t so bad from the musical standpoint. Pity that the Regisseurin was a Kathi Wagner (incidentally, co-Festspielleiterin from this edition). Apparently, her Regietheater (aka Eurotrash) staging, albeit revised from the 2007 original, has just brought the audience to exasperation and millions of people in the world could hear by radio the much deserved boohs and insults for that crazy havoc of one of Richard’s masterpieces.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Unions’ Festival uphill
2009 – a transitional year for the Festival, with no new stagings – will be remembered for a pretty new performance: the Verdi (no, not Giuseppe’s fans) revolt against low wages and long working hours. Up to the last moment a strike that could block the festival’s opening is not to be discarded.
Add to this the problems that Kathi is having in Spain, and the announcement of the farewell between Thielemann and the Münchner Philharmoniker (that will not put the Kapellmeister in the best mood…) and you have the picture of a rather shaky start of the new KW-EWP management.
Add to this the problems that Kathi is having in Spain, and the announcement of the farewell between Thielemann and the Münchner Philharmoniker (that will not put the Kapellmeister in the best mood…) and you have the picture of a rather shaky start of the new KW-EWP management.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Thursday, December 25, 2008
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