New Yorkers of a certain age remember a front page headline of the New York Daily News when the federal government refused to “bail out” New York City, which was on the brink of default: “FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD!” Well, that’s sort of what has happened with the Bayreuth Festival and the loyal Wagner […]
In the supplemental material to the Opus Arte DVD of Katharina Wagner’s recent Bayreuth production of Die Meistersinger, she relates: When my father asked if I were interested in directing it here, I asked myself as I would with any work anywhere: “Does it have a story I’m interested in telling?” It would appear that […]
The Economist reports that the German government is challenging the priority of ticket allocations by the Bayreuth Festival. In a brief electronically posted note, the magazine notes that fewer than half of the Festival’s tickets are made available to the public. The large majority are allocated to corporate sponsors, Friends of Bayreuth, labor unions and other […]
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