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Pragmatic, persistent, in crisis: Katharina Wagner will be on the red carpet for the tenth time on Wednesday as Festival Director Richard Wagner, welcoming Angela Merkel to Bayreuth. Since her debut as festival director, Richard Wagner's great-grandson has become something of Angela M. of Green Hill. She has survived a number of scandals, she defies the storms, even if she counts as counted.
What did not happen since Wolfgang Wagner – whose daughter inherited the Franconian dickskull – left office in 2008 after decades of eternity first to Katharina and her half-sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier (who has not been on the hill since 2015, an ugly story). In 2010, traditionalists protested with furious storms against Hans Neuenfels' "Lohengrin" – the glorious Rättische production quickly became cult. In 2012, the "Dutch" Russian Evgeni Nikitin had to be replaced because of a so-called swastika tattoo shortly before the first. In 2013, the tragedy of Frank Castorf's "Ring" has warmed his spirits – Kirill Petrenko's leadership is looking forward to it all. Then Jonathan Meese was fired as director of "Parsifal" and was hired for 2016 Uwe-Eric Laufenberg. Four weeks before the premiere, conductor Andris Nelson threw the case, instead of Letten, then 37, who led Hartmut Haenchen, 73 years old. 2017 went smoothly, and the short-term cancellation of Roberto Alagna for the title role of the premiere of "Lohengrin" directed by Yuval Sharon this year is truly a child's play. Whatever the case may be, the public is waiting impatiently for the set, it comes from Neo Rauch and Rosa Loy.
Creation of Bayreuth's children's opera, progressive opening of the Bayreuth Rampart, online tickets and open-air broadcast with audience, which also belongs to the decade of Katharina Wagner. No revolutionary innovator, cautious, even provocative.
Artistic balance can still improve
People like to say stupidly, there is a smart woman behind every successful man. For Bayreuth, you could turn the sentence. The musical director, Christian Thielemann, directed the ten Wagner operas at the Festspielhaus with the "Lohengrin" conductor, only Felix Mottl did it more than 100 years ago. Rock in the waves? Thielemann himself is not the most circumspect artist, knowing that Wagner has been cooperating with him for so long.
And the artistic balance? The "Lohengrin" of Neuenfels is still on the account of Wolfgang Wagner, the "ring" of Castorf remains controversial, the dark "Tristan" of Katharina disappointed, the "Meistersinger" Barrie Kosky is in its second year. Bayreuth needs more exciting the stage of the crisis.
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