Gtterdmmerung Siegfrieds Tod und Trauermarsch (Klaus Florian Vogt) Gtterdmmerung Final scene (Christine Goerke ), Photo: Enrico Nawrath/Bayreuther Festspiele, Tristan und Isolde conductors at Bayreuth, One of the finest monuments in sound ever to have been raised to the everlasting glory of music. Knappe Martin Homrich Characterisation would help, to put it mildly, but so would a sense of the political and indeed the religiousof context whether broadly, specifically, or both (ideally). Lohengrin Mezzo-soprano Christa Mayer sang the role of Fricka with her powerful dark sound and an astonishing low register. Olafur Sigurdarson, Syabonga Maqungo,Raimund Nolte and Jorge Rodrguez-Norton were brilliant in their supportive short roles of Melot, Junger Seemann, Ein Steuermann and Ein Hirt, respectively. But when the Bayreuth Festival Theater opened in 1876, with the premiere of his full "Ring of the Nibelung" a four-opera, 15 . Markus Eiches lyrical baritone was ideal for the role of Kurwenal. Aug. 7, 2022. In addition to "Tristan and Isolde" and the "Ring" series, the operas "Lohengrin" and "Tannhuser" will be performed in addition tolast year's "Flying Dutchman," conducted by Oksana Lyniv,the first femaleconductor at the Bayreuth Festival. (Photo: Enrico Nawrath, Bayreuter Festspiele), Hagen (Albert Dohmen) and Gunther (Michael Kupfer-Radecky). Cornelius Meister (conductor), At Wagners Festival, a Dutchman Never Sails. 24.8. But this isnt all that surprising. But his voice lost intensity and projection from the middle to the upper range, giving little vocal consistency in a role which has to sound authoritative and powerful. Not having been there, I can only speculate, but many have said it improved radically during its stint, a tribute to Bayreuths Werkstatt principle. But these perfect conditions for acoustics leave, on the other hand, the singers completely exposed and every mistake is noticeable. Costumes by Andy Besuch. This article was originally written in German, Sexism allegations overshadow Bayreuth Festival. Illuminating ideas were not followed through and in truth were not often sustainable. There is no reason to think that the rest of the work will not follow in time. It is hardly unusual for the gods to have nothing god-like to them at any stage whatsoever, though such is at best a one-sided view. As these final pages were reached in Valentin Schwarzs new Ring cycle at the Bayreuth festival, the conductor Cornelius Meister and the festival orchestra, in the concealed Bayreuth pit, were playing out of their skins as the score demanded. Bayreuth Festival Bayreuth 2022: Das Rheingold (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) Bayreuth 2022: Die Walkre (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) Bayreuth 2022: Siegfried (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) Bayreuth 2022: Gtterdmmerung (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) Even those, however, who discern some kind of return at the close will have wanted a little more for their money than a hasty, borderline-cynical return of dual umbilical chord babies on video, and, prior to that, of a swimming pool for the Rhine. It makes you a little bit scared, and it's really quite terrifying." (Lance Ryan on the audiences at Bayreuth), "People sometimes complain that Wagner operas are too long, that they get stiff and sore about 10.30 because they have rushed in to hear one of his works straight from work and are not properly prepared for listening to his music. Knappe Simone Schrder They take everything personally. Solist Klaus Florian Vogt Wagner's monumental Ring cycle isn't a. Tenor: Klaus Florian Vogt, Die Walkre Act 1 Valentin Schwarz erntet fr seine wenig schlssige Neuinszenierung von Richard Wagners Ring des Nibelungen fast einhellige Ablehnung. Eva Camilla Nylund After Tristan A Journey from the Past Backwards into the Present. Brnnhilde Irne Theorin In Siegfried, the unwrapping of the tightly bandaged Brnnhilde was a striking take on Siegfrieds moment of female discovery. Gtterdmmerung Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt Her performance was rotund and strong, giving an emotional characterization. 1.8. Bayreuth Festival 2022: an unusual number of boos from the audience Conductor Cornelius Meister had to be satisfied with mixed reactions for his loud and sometimes ruthless conducting, from which Irne Theorin in particular suffered audibly as Brnnhilde. 14.8. The third act, though, was much better, a sense of form as living structure once again imparted. Wotan - Egils SilinsDonner - Raimund NolteFroh - Attilio GlaserLoge - Daniel KirchFricka - Christa MayerFreia - Elisabeth TeigeErda - Okka von der DamerauAlb. (Tiroler Tageszeitung), Bhnenunfall, Buhgewitter und ein unrunder Ring: Eine Schrecksekunde, ein Bhnenunfall und ein Einspringer, der bejubelt wird. There is so much in these bloody pieces, all you can do is try to live up to them." Reply. Klaus Florian Vogt, in his element as Lohengrin under Thielemann, brought his otherworldly tone to Siegmund too, outstanding in the annunciation of death scene with Brnnhilde, but less effective in conveying the characters tortured loneliness. Fafner Wilhelm Schwinghammer Stefan Herheim om samarbeidet med Gatti etc. Kirchs performance was agile, with depurated German diction, and unlimited variety of colors and dynamics. But whats most fascinating is that most characters cant step on it or cross the floor screen; in fact only Tristan and Isolde stay on it. February 14, 2022 Its Austrian director Valentin Schwarz has been talking to the DPA: 'The fact that the "Ring" in Bayreuth is performed in its entirety within just one week gives us the. The hall capacity will be 1925 seats. Built entirely to the specifications of one man, Richard Wagner, it was designed solely for the showing of Wagner's monumental works. 25.7.2021 performance and streamed (directed by Andy Sommer) for a limited time on DG Stage. August 19, 2022 16:00:00. Cornelius Meister offered a passionate reading of the score. The fact that the COVID pandemic is not yet over has become painfully apparent in Bayreuth. Advertisement Those attending this. But if the climax of this Ring contained any suggestion that a new order of things had somehow been made possible, it was hard to see where it was. 22.8. Georg . Most of the various Wotans (there were three) were adequate rather than notable. In Bayreuth, even less is happening in a new production that director Roland Schwab took care of. 26.8. 28.8. Bayreuther Festspiele 2022; Rheingold; Insz. After two constricted pandemic years, the Bayreuth Festival is back with an unprecedented lineup of Wagner operas and full houses. 2022 16:00:00. He will also co-edit the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Wagner's 'Ring'. Parsifal Karfreitagszauber, Die Walkre Act 1 Schwab manages to find a perfect balance between the story, which can be clearly understood and all the philosophical/metaphysical concepts that are a constant throughout the opera, creating moments that have a realistic natural approach (the first act until they drink the love potion or Markes monologue in Act two). He designed his work as a great social drama, dealing with power, greedand intrigue in the pantheonand on Earth. More than 50,000 spectators attended this years Festival. Le Gateau Chocolat (Kyle Patrick) Originally scheduled for 2020, it arrived two years late due to the pandemic with a new conductor, Meister, drafted in at short notice after Pietari Inkinen contracted Covid. It is built entirely of wood, with one of the deepest stages in all theater. Valentin Schwarzs Ring ends more or less where it began, bar curtain-calls in which the long-awaited appearance of Schwarz and his team was greeted by the most intensive booing I have ever heard. 20.8. "COVID has unfortunately also led to a loss of audience, many houses are noticing this with a sharp drop in subscribers as well," she told the German press agency dpa. The overture begins with a short motif that concludes in the famous Tristans chord. This is repeated three times in different keys with three silences in between. Regarder Grand bal symphonique avec l'Orchestre national de France De Berlioz Offenbach 44 min. With no grandeur, reduced to the essential: to experience his works as a celebration. They take everything personally. BUT, the problem is that such a realistic approach does not tell the story of the opera well, filling Wagners original libretto with contradictions to the point that the story being played onstage resembles nothing of the actual text. Cornelius Meister, general music director of the Stuttgart State Opera, will now conduct the "Ring" in his place. Select from premium Stephanie Stumph Photos of the highest quality. Tannhuser 95445 Bayreuth. Her intervention is about 10 minutes long but she gained the recognition of the audience with her dark velvety sound, her mesmerizing legato singing, and her unlimited palette of vocal colors. in 2020 the festival was cancelled, 2021 Bayreuth was a shaky affairtoo uncertain for a mammoth ring project. Waltraute did not suit Christa Mayer quite so much as Fricka, but there was little doubting the quality of verbal response. She masterfully sustained the uncomfortable tessitura for a mezzo-soprano, with multiple sections written between E flat and A natural. Der Ring des Nibelungen NYT Critic's Pick. The audience, as much as the artists, must be prepared for a performance." These bare stagings, where everything was done with lighting. Berlin, Germany . Christian Thielemann. Catherine Foster Shines in Roland Schwabs Beautiful Production. Insofar as one could avoid Schwarzs weird conception of Guntherwas he supposed to be high, or just very, very peculiar?the same could be said of Michael Kupfer-Radecky in that role. Nobody had done that on the stage before. Find Stephanie Stumph Photos stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. While taking in a divisive production of Der Ring des Nibelungen, it was quite refreshing to take in the August 12 performance of Tristan und Isolde and come away hearing deserved bravos and cheers. Im not implying that the productions should be classical and represent faithfully all the actions of the story. Markus Poscher offered an emotional reading of the score, giving special emphasis to the multiple crescendos and silences throughout. Boston, Massachusetts, United States . Concert Classique. The Nibelungs, a dwarf race, are represented in this production by little blond girls in uniform drawing pictures. It is the moment to which everything in the cycle has been leading, the moment when the tangled and dishonest world of the gods, in which the audience has been enmeshed across four operas and nearly 16 hours of music and drama, comes crashing down. Home. (BR Klassik), Das Rheingold review no ring, no gold, instead child abuse and abduction drive Bayreuths new Ring. It was the year after Wieland Wagner had died; to be able to see his productions was a total knock-out. Loiseau de feu de Stravinsky - Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Spot On. Since 1876, when he first performed his Ring des Nibelungen as a cycle. Waltraute Christa Meyer ", "I had the feeling that more and more people were coming to Bayreuth for the first time, rather than for 30 or 40 years," museum director Sven Friedrich toldDW. 21.8. Just a few days ago, the Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen, who had been rehearsing the "Ring" with the Festival Orchestra, had to back out due after contracting COVID. Wagner demands constant forte ascensions to A naturals at the most riveting emotional climaxes, such as the end of act one, the beginning of the love duet or the climax moments in Act three; in Goulds voice, they sounded underpowered. His voice is bigger and denser comparing to the tenors usually cast for this part. Director Barrie Kosky It is true that their roles are very short and delegated to a few spare lines, but the baritone lacked the vocal power to sing heroic line likeHe da, He da, he do which turned out to be tedious and uninteresting. Wotan Egils Silins It is a competitive market. After Tristan - A Journey from the Past Backwards into the Present. Her characterization was intense but believable and she deftly portrayed all the extreme feelings Isolde goes through, from anger and revenge to unconditional love and ecstasy. Its also completely comprehensible, something rarely common nowadays in the world of Regietheater. Eingesprungen fr den an Corona erkrankten Dirigenten Pietari Inkinen ist Cornelius Meister. Casting. And OperaWire came about as a desire to take in as much of it and allow the passionate fan base access to everything this wondrous art form has to offer on a daily basis. Wanda . It is by any standards climactic. Festspielhgel 1-2 As the curtain fell, it triggered a fusillade of booing - along with cheering too. 7.8. Thielemann was 28 when he made his Vienna State Opera debut in 1987. Hagen (Albert Dohmen). Bayreuth Festival Tickets 2023 Buy Now Since the Bayreuth Festival reopened in 1951, Bayreuth Festival tickets have sold out year after year. 26.7. Das Rheingold Lyrical art highlights; Legends of Opera . When expanded it provides a list of search options that will switch the search inputs to match the current selection. Alberichs Fluch auf die Liebe im Gegenzug frs Edelmetall - nur taucht es an diesem Abend gar nicht auf. (Sddeutsche Zeitung), Valentin Schwarz inszeniert Rheingold bei den Bayreuther Festspielen als Auftakt seines Ring des Nibelungen. In the cinema Reichshof. Gunther wears a sparkly top that asks Who the fuck is Grane? Quite, though one might ask that about anyone here, really. Instead, though, we end up with something that trivially disrupts the very parallelism the production seems to wish to construct between Wotan and Alberich, and arguably has more than a pinch of ableism to it. With neither ship nor sea, Dmitri Tcherniakovs new Bayreuth Festival staging recasts the opera as a tale of violent revenge (New York Times), At Bayreuth, it is Tcherniakovs Der fliegende Hollnder we see while Oksana Lyniv lets us hear Wagners (Jim Pritchard in Seen and Heard), Wagners "Hollnder" als Dorf-Thriller (BR-Klassik), At this years Bayreuth Festival, both cheers and jeers greet the new production of Wagners classic (Financial Times), Conductor Philippe Jordan Bayreuth, Bayern, Deutschland Lehrauftrag "Choreografische Praxis" Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultt, Universitt Bayreuth . 19.8. 31.8. After two constricted pandemic years, the Bayreuth Festival is back with an unprecedented line-up of Wagner operas and full houses.Those attending this . Siegfried In the past, the museum director has often been asked whichcelebrities will be in attendance. What we are supposed to make of that girls disappearance during the final scene, or indeed anything much in a scene that sadly had many in the audience laughing at its sheer ineptitude, I have no idea. August 22, 2022 16:00:00. The British soprano has a big, dark sound with a marked but stable vibrato. However, he could, at the same time switch very easily to beautiful lyrical moments like in Freias motives or Erdas scene. Siegfried zieht ihm den Rollator weg, worauf er einen Herzschlag bekommt. Intermission Occasionally, some older things return, yet neither with dramatic reason nor insight. Sat 24 Jun 2023 Kindheitstraum Festival 2023 Speichersdorf, Germany. Bayreuth remains an extraordinary venue, its ambitious ability to mount a new cycle in a single season is remarkable, and the 150th anniversary Ring, to be mounted there in 2026, will doubtless be a global event. And it is this concept that provides the foundation for the production. In the cinema Reichshof. Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy) Plus d'options Max Emanuel Cencic chante Haendel Festival Bayreuth Baroque 2022 Plus d'options. Lohengrin (Schwarzwlder Bote), Schnitzeljagd fr Wagner-Nerds: Der schreckliche Drache ist ein todkranker, uralter Mann. Hans Sachs Michael Volle Alexandra Steiner (Waldvogel), Andreas Schager (Siegfried), Arnold Bezuyen (Mime) and Branko Buchberger (Hagen) in Siegfried, in Valentin Schwarzs staging for Bayreuth. Seit das Markgrfliche Opernhaus fertig restauriert wurde, findet dort Ende August das Festival Bayreuth Baroque statt. All of the leitmotifs were clearly expressed in the orchestra and all sections were completely balanced. Gurnemanz Georg Zeppenfeld I suppose a cyclical turn will appeal to some who insist on referring to the Ring as a cycle, when it is nothing of the sort. Buy tickets for every upcoming concert, festival, gig and tour date taking place in Bayreuth in 2023 & 2024. (Lance Ryan on the audiences at Bayreuth), "People sometimes complain that Wagner operas are too long, that they get stiff and sore about 10.30 because they have rushed in to hear one of his works straight from work and are not properly prepared for listening to his music. He dies at the front of the stage as Isolde remains trapped at the back, unable to cross the central oval. Subversive: Die Walkre at Bayreuth festival. Like a child with an extremely limited attention span, Schwarz presents something, tires of it, presents a new thing without bothering to connect it to the previous thing, and continues. (Photo: Enrico Nawrath, Bayreuter Festspiele), Das Rheingold (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) - Bayreuth Festival 2022, Die Walkre (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) - Bayreuth Festival 2022, Siegfried (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) - Bayreuth Festival 2022, Gtterdmmerung (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) - Bayreuth Festival 2022, Sam Goodyear: Der Ring des Nibelungen (Valentin Schwarz / Cornelius Meister) - Bayreuth Festival 2022, 25.7. Das Rheingold Parsifal Stephen Gould Ein Nachtwchter Gnther Groissbck, July 2021: 26 Occasionally, everything comes together, as it did last in Barry Koskys 2017 Die Meistersinger, conducted by Philippe Jordan, and before that in Stefan Herheims brilliant Parsifal in 2008, conducted by Daniele Gatti. It added extraneous characters and details (such as unscripted children of various characters), while ignoring many of Wagners intentions (there was no ring, no spear, no dragon, an intermittent sword and a halfhearted attempt at a Tarnhelm). Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy) It seems to speak more than anything of lack of acquaintance with Wagners work andwhich may or may not be fairsheer laziness. 2022 - 2023. The light changed with the music, and the shadows and patterns seemed as archetypal as the music itself. In some ways the most successful staging of the cycle was act two of Gtterdmmerung, performed without fuss or distraction inside a simple white cube set that felt like a 20th-century throwback. 16.8. Lea-Ann Dunbar, Stephanie Houtzeel and Katie Stevenson portrayed the three Rhinemaidens. Press Release Stuttgart, 25 February 2022. Gutrune Elisabeth Teige Balthasar Zorn Martin Homrich The incidents will now be investigated.. If vocal performances did not always reach the heights, nor did they ever fall below a reasonable level. His last line:Isolde!, sung with hushed piannisimi, was breathtaking. Get your tickets here! Her lyrical instrument, with a dark, round sound but sweet timbre and mesmerizing projection, was the perfect contrast to Fosters dramatic voice. International expert workshop on the digital health divide at the University of Bayreuth, Campus Kulmbach: Submit your Beliebt bei Petronela Sandulache. Isolde finally steps back into it for the final Liebestod.. The music, in short, was saying everything, but the staging, an empty pool full of junk, nothing. 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A revampedversion of the opera cycle "The Ring of the Nibelung" is also eagerly awaited. 18.8. He imprinted a sense of power and vitality to the score. Avant-garde pioneer artist Mary Bauermeister has died, Belgian court paves way for Iran prisoner swap treaty, Palestinians in occupied West Bank live with uncertainty, Thousands of migrants have died in South Texas. The only truly standout performance was Lise Davidsens Sieglinde, a performance for the ages. Thursday August 04 2022, 12.00pm, The Times Valentin Schwarz's Bayreuth Festival Ring suffered yet another mishap during Act II of Die Walkre . Robe Up All Night with Black Coffee at Zamna Festival. The Rheingold is personified by a small boy wearing a yellow cap and T-shirt; therefore Alberich kidnaps the boy from the swimming pool instead of stealing pieces of gold. (Photo: Enrico Nawrath, Bayreuter Festspiele). Die Walkre 31.7. Last year saw ascaled-down schedule and audience in Bayreuth, butfestival director Katharina Wagneris pleased to confirm areturn to full capacity in 2022. Titurel Gnther Groissbck 30.7. Olafur Sigurdarsons Alberich and Albert Dohmens were typically intelligent portrayals, founded in the poem and employing its musical marriage to considerable effect. (Christian Wildhagen, Neue Zrcher Zeitung), Intellektuell und sinnlich erweist sich der neue Bayreuther Ring schlielich als das Fiasko, an das man zuvor drei Abende lang trotzdem nicht glauben konnte. Boos could be heard ringing out during the final curtain for the August 10 Rheingold, a clear indication about how they felt about Valentin Schwarzs new production. Produkte. There will also be a festival atmosphere at the outdoor theater. (Photo: Enrico Nawrath, Bayreuter Festspiele). Please check if you entered the email address correctly. Amfortas Michael Volle Siegfried With no grandeur, reduced to the essential: to experience his works as a celebration. The latter production was added to the schedule at short notice in order to remain playable in the event of conceivable outbreaks of infection in the collectives, and will be on the schedule again next year. Luis August Krawen, Bayreuth Festival Chorus (chorus master: Eberhard Friedrich) Bayreuth Festival :: Reviews, Schedules & Photos Company search click here for a gallery of photos from recent productions Tannhuser Bayreuth Festival Der Fliegende Hollnder Bayreuth Festival Gtterdmmerung Bayreuth Festival click here for more photos for this opera company Click below for production trailers Tannhuser Der Fliegende Hollnder Nachhaltigkeit bei Robe. A version of Lohengrin created especially for children was performed ten times with great success on rehearsal stage IV. Verdi, Beethoven, Tchakovski. Theres also a dark sky full of stars for Acts two and three. Bass-baritone Egils Silins was a weak Wotan. (Mnchner Merkur), Das Rheingold in Bayreuth: Poolparty mit Kindesentfhrung. There is no magic helmet either, therefore no invisibility or transformation into giant snakes or small toads. August 2021: 1, 8, 12, 17, 24, Conductor Axel Kober He imbued his interpretation with power and vocal entity which in this production has to rely on vocal characterization as the staging does not help much. Raimund Nolte and Attilio Glaser were simply correct as Donner and Froh. 2. In addition to "Parsifal," the 2023 festival will present "The Ring of the Nibelung," "Tristan and Isolde," "Tannhuser" and "The Flying Dutchman. Alberich Olafur Sigurdarson How, asks Kuhn, did this nasty, this hairy and hideous imp beget a child with the proud Queen Grimhild? Perhaps using the power he has amassed by foreswearing love? The Bayreuth Festival A theatre created for a single composer: the Bayreuth Festival Theatre. And these measures turned out to produce a pure balanced sound where all the textures of his compositions are perfectly audible. The air is boiling in the Festspielhaus, which has neither air conditioning to speak of nor modern fire protection. Meisters direction was fluent and competent without coming close to the excellence of Christian Thielemanns conducting of Lohengrin in the middle of the Ring week. "I thought I'd just tell people about the festival idea and how a festival day works.". 2,279 were here. Schwarzs cycle was a further milestone in Bayreuths continuing loss of authority and direction. Festspiel Open Air Lighting Reinhard Traub Alberich Olafur Sigurdarson Auch Klaus Florian Vogt kann begeistern, selbst wenn ihm die Partie eigentlich zu tief liegt. Siegfried Bass: Gnther Groissbck In the cinema Reichshof. "COVID has unfortunately also. There were also four performances of Der fliegende Hollnder, five performances of Lohengrin, five performances of Tannhuser, and two concerts under the musical direction of Andris Nelsons. Elisabeth Teige was a strong Freia, giving entity and strength to a role which is usually portrayed as a weak young girl. After 145 Years, Bayreuth Festival Has Its First Female Conductor! The Bayreuth Festival (German: Bayreuther Festspiele) is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of operas by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. The new production of Ring des Nibelungen was eagerly awaited, as it had already been scheduled for 2020 and was performed three times this year as a cycle. Her interpretation of Einsam wachend, which is on the most beautiful melodies written in this score, was extremely moving. Tomas Konieczny, who sang Wotan, fell on the set in the second act of Die Walkre and had to be replaced for the third act of that opera. Stephan Gould sang the role of Tristan. Already for the thirteenth time, realized by BF Medien, the project Wagner for Children took place. The Bayreuth Festival in Germany has announced its 2023 program. 90 (1883) *** Symphonie Nr. 4.8. (Photo: Enrico Nawrath, Bayreuter Festspiele). A girl, who may or may not be the same as one also marked out at the swimming pool, who in turn may or may not be the same as the one Erda a little later seemed keen to protect, seems at times to take on the mantle of the ring, although there is also from time to time a ring too (which, given generally dim lighting, most of us can barely see). The quality of singing was episodic too. (Benjamin Britten to Alan Blyth, Gramophone), "I was bowled over. (Keith Warner, The Guardian), "I have never come across an audience with so much hatred, so much anger, such a thirst for revenge. Conversely, Wilhelm Schwinghammer gave a strong interpretation of the short role of Fafner. We can give unqualified recommendations for the two (2) streams listed below: Radio Clasica de Espana KEY TO READING THE SCHEDULE We look forward to seeing you again in 2023, stay well! And OperaWire came about as a desire to take in as much of it and allow the passionate fan base access to everything this wondrous art form has to offer on a daily basis. 4. Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 7 - 18 September 2022, Bayreuth, Germany Margravial Opera House Bayreuth Margravial Opera House Bayreuth Sun Temple of the Orangery in the Hermitage Carlo il Calvoat the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival Falk von Traubenberg Margravial Opera House Bayreuth Margravial Opera House Bayreuth Andrea Cozzi (designs) . Okka von der Damerau sang the short but lucid role of Erda. But the tessitura of this role in this opera is mostly central so Silins performance was mostly correct. But Corona cast long shadows over Bayreuth's sweltering heat this year. . Heftige Buhgewitter gab es auch. The orchestra and chorus of the festival sounded beautiful, strong, and full of emotion. Irene Theorin as Brnnhilde. Innovation. 3 F-Dur op. operacast - Bayreuth 2022 INTERNET BROADCAST SCHEDULE BROADCASTS & REBROADCASTS July 25 through August 6, 2022 . Gtterdmmerung He does not have the basso-profondo voice that this role requires and therefore he lacked vocal power. Festival Bayreuth Baroque 2022. 3. Ultimately, this was a magnificent performance where the production, the cast and the musicians were excellent and therefore were correspondingly lauded by Bayreuths passionate audience at the curtain call, something which was rarely seen at this years festival. There is no shame in that; many conductors, at the best of times, are more successful in some parts of the Ring than others. Last year saw a scaled-down schedule and audience in Bayreuth, but festival director Katharina Wagner was pleased to confirm a return to full capacity in 2022.