Jun 21, 2006
The Bayreuth Festival will open
this year on July 25 with a performance of Der fliegende Holländer, Wagner's first
"mature" opera. This production is a controversial modern, Freudian
staging of the work that has been greeted with boos year after year
since the first time that it premiered in 2003. In this
podcast...
Jun 4, 2006
In contrast to the first "complete"
recording ever made at the Bayreuth Festival in 1928, which was the
subject of our two previous podcasts, we now offer excerpts from
the latest Tristan und
Isolde from the Festspielhaus. This modern dress production
premiered on July 25, 2005, and the action of the opera
takes...