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Wednesday in a week on the Green Hill, begins the Bayreuth Festival. In addition to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, many other celebrities should start with "Lohengrin.
"Lohengrin" is highly anticipated "kleinzeitung.at
The Bayreuth Festival will begin this year with the new production of Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin". On 25 July, many celebrities are expected to return to the Green Hill – led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU). Many members of the cabinet announced it as well as the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU). Neighboring countries come the Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte . The actors also walk on the red carpet to the Festspielhaus Udo Wachtveitl ("Crime Scene"), Francis Fulton-Smith ("Dr. Kleist") and ] Günter Maria Halmer
The new edition of "Lohengrin" is directed by the Israeli-American director Yuval Sharon the musical director is Christian Thielemann – he completes his program Bayreuth will then have headed all listed in the Festspielhaus Wagner works. The scenography and costumes are particularly eye-catching, and none other than the well-known artist couple Neo Rauch and Rosa Loy designed them.
It went quickly. The excitement of the cancellation of Roberto Alagna who was to interpret the title role of Bayreuth's new production of Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin", did not s'. is not yet well established, the organizers of the festival by presenting replacement. For many observers, Piotr Beczala (51) is considered the most appropriate Swan Knight anyway. Specializing in French and Italian, Alagna acknowledged that his agency was struggling to repeat the game, and was ridiculed by many experts with scorn and derision: Did he find that earlier than at the end of the month? of June.
But now rehearsals on the Green Hill are in full swing to bring a "Lohengrin" to the stage at the beginning of the world famous festival on July 25, which is expected eagerly for several reasons: How Nothelfer Beczala after his debut Lohengrin in Dresden now in Bayreuth alongside Elsa Anja Harteros? The soprano star wants to go looking for clues in the Festspielhaus of Richard Wagner, as she said in the dpa interview: "What was her ideal of? opera? I wonder how it affects me and if I feel that at all.First of all, I am looking forward to working with Christian Thielemann. "
But what does Thielemann's "Lohengrin" look like? The festival's music director approaching the zenith of Bayreuth – "Lohengrin" is still missing, so he will have directed the ten Wagner operas listed on Green Hill. Felix Mottl (1856-1911).
No less exciting is the question of how Yuval Sharon American director with Israeli roots, interprets Wagner's romantic opera. The badysis of Wagner's antisemitic attitude as well as the past of the festival during the Nazi era is still a hot topic, as shown by the premiere of Barrie's "Meistersinger von Nürnberg" Kosky last year. Kosky used his interpretation of the opera as a call against xenophobia and anti-Semitism
Sharon follows in stride with "Lohengrin": The Previous staging of Hans Neuenfels in a clinical laboratory atmosphere with After some initial skepticism, the cult status of the choir on stage in cute and threatening rat costumes reached a cult status among the public
however , the optics should not be neglected in the new prod uction Katharina Wagne a Künstlerpaa Neo Rauch and Rosa Loy hired for scenography and costumes.
And: Waltraud Meier (62) returns to the Green Hills after nearly 20 years of absence back – as Ortrud. The former departure of Bayreuth was blurred with former festival director Wolfgang Wagner . But she had already reconciled with him during her lifetime, she recently told the "Münchner Merkur". Now his daughter Katharina Wagner has approached it with the application for the lot Ortrud
The festival can also boast of important names apart from the production "Lohengrin": Weltstar Placido Domingo will be released for the first time in the Conducted by the famous orchestra pit, the "Valkyrie" directed by Frank Castorf returns three times to the repertoire, of which the conclusion of the festival on August 29th.
And what else? Kosky's "Meistersinger" can be seen and heard again, as well as "Parsifal" directed by Uwe Eric Laufenberg and "Tristan und Isolde" in Katharina Wagner's production. In order to complete the program in the year without the tetralogy "The Ring of the Nibelung" returns after a few years of break "The Flying Dutchman" of Jan Philipp Gloge r on the plane of Thu.
