A Director’s success, a brilliant replacement and insights on overloaded conductors: So colorful, the Richard-Wagner were solid games in a long time. Since it is not played no role, Anna Netrebko came.
They were sold out in no time: postcards for the show with Elena Zhidkova in your Venus costume, a tight-fitting Catsuit with lots of glitter. Like other Bayreuth motifs of the year, she was in front of the Bayreuth festival to purchase the house for sale. The artist himself had been hit with the last two, so their self-report.
Elena Zhidkova
This is from the Saint Petersburg-born Cover Girl of the Wagner Festivals in 2019, by the German press as the sharpest “Tannhäuser”-the Venus of all times, blessed are you who wait until the last minute for the Premiere of the year cast. In the time of greatest Hardship, as her for this role designated colleague, Ekaterina Gubanova, due to a serious stage-like accident, her Bayreuth debut a year had to move. Zhidkova, a world-renowned Wagner singer, came, saw and conquered in the in the Wagner center. Fans of vocal power, Charisma, and devotion, by days, in only four of the Sample not only the huge role coped with, but also the Neudreh of the Videos that play in Tobias scratch “Tannhäuser”-staging a Central role.
A star is born – no, equal to two stars: The young Norwegian Lise Davidsen took her, radiant Elisabeth in “Tannhäuser” your next great Wagner-roles anticipated, such as the Brünnhilde. For such voices, it is worth it to make the pilgrimage to Bayreuth.
“Tannhäuser” in the best of company
On the Premiere of the year are directed in Bayreuth, Germany is traditionally all eyes. This time, the 108. Edition of the Bayreuth festival, and now it was just “Tannhäuser” – the ninth staging of the work in the history of the festival. As a smart and feisty, but above all, of the score, the criticism inspired felt the Interpretation of the 39-year-old German star Director Tobias Kratzer.
A new star for Wagner: Lise Davidsen as Elizabeth – next to the small actors in the Manni Laudenbach as Oskar
Thus, the Festival, according to the “Meistersinger” by Barrie Kosky in 2017 and the “Lohengrin” by Yuval Sharon, equipped with the pioneering stage of Rosa Loy and Neo Rauch lands, from the year of 2018, a third directorial success in a row – such a series of success one is looking for a long time in the history of the festival.
Most gratifying is that, in addition to the orchestra, played in Bayreuth at the highest level, in the last decade, an Ensemble of singers beyond the Star-cult has formed that has no equal – with Markus Eiche, Daniel Behle, Günther Groissböck, Tansel Akzeybek or Georg Zeppenfeld are just some of the names are for the Bayreuth is Wagner Olympus, and not a Gala event.
“Causa Gergiev” and “the case of Netrebko”
The debut of Valery Gergiev at the Bayreuth festival was expected to play with great excitement. For years, if not decades, there is talk that the “Wagner-Zar” should conduct of Russia to the Green hills. Valery was Gergiev who performed in Russia in the last twenty years, the first since the October revolution of 1917, the whole Wagner Canon of his Mariinsky theatre and a new Wagner-cult in Russia triggered. In a DW Interview the Maestro in 2012, even spoke of his own “Alternative-Bayreuth” on the Neva.
The customer urge to Bayreuth, the festival management game as well as to the influence of the orchestra Board of Directors rich. After the sudden cancellation of Andris Nelsons three years ago, was Gergiev is a hot candidate for the “Parsifal”conductor, and then due to scheduling reasons, did not materialize. It is the invitation for the new “Tannhäuser, but came”.
The meeting of the Russian Star conductor with the Bayreuth orchestra is marked, as it is understood now from the internal circles on both sides, of great disappointment. The chemistry did not vote – this sounds flat, but there are so. Gergiev’s Wagner’s Vision for the Bayreuth-musicians nebulized. According to bland, the musical result, despite the great singer of the performance was.
Valery Gergiev’s dance on multiple weddings
No success in Bayreuth: Valeri Gergiev
For this failure, the time may not have been a lack of the main reason: Everyone in the industry knows to samples of Valery Gergiev’s for all Involved, exhausting type, and even your own premieres on the very last push with flying and driving vehicles anzudüsen. His Overload is not a secret: You don’t need to research too extensively, to learn that the Maestro, in parallel to his Bayreuth commitment, not only in Salzburg and Verbier, rehearsed and conducted, but also in Vladivostok, with Wagner’s “Parsifal”. Until then, nearly 11,000 kilometers of air line from Bayreuth. That’s all for Gergiev, however, normal. His political preferences are not likely to have stood at the Wagner-Festival in the foreground.
Is due to rigid this Failure of mutual expectations of a certain shock? In any case, Valery will come Gergiev for a second Time to Bayreuth. He must also – Axel Kober takes in the coming year, the baton of “Tannhäuser”.
Anna Netrebko with her husband Yusif Eyvazov – the Tenor has cancelled his appearances in Verona “due to exhaustion”
Even more of a disappointment was the short notice cancellation of Anna Netrebko. Health reasons for the Declaration were, that the Opera star to the fulfilment of various commitments on other platforms, such as in Salzburg, now a summer break to avoid fatigue. The Instagram Account, the singer proves that the is now working diligently on the beautiful sides of life on the shores of the Caspian sea and the Black sea in the circle of your family. Netrebko needs so no Bayreuth. But, perhaps, also of Bayreuth, no need for Netrebko? This Festival has a never waning Star – Richard Wagner and his music.
Bayreuth 2020: The “Ring” comes, the women have to wait
In 2020 there will be in Bayreuth for a new “Ring” – a new production of the four operas of the Central Wagner plant. The is no Sensation, were it not for a Roadmap for Change: Instead of the German Director, Tatjana Gürbaca, the Austrian Valentin is Black, born in 1989, directing. The baton of the 39-year – old Finn Pietari Inkinen, the sat in this year diligently in the orchestra pit and explore the features of the Bayreuth acoustics will not accept-what would happen Valery Gergiev, never, alone, for scheduling reasons. So, two Wagner-Newcomer, which you can expect a few Things.
The new “Ring” will not be staged by a female Hand, what would have been a Premiere, is a pity. The female debuts, but also in the Wagner headquarters no longer have to wait long, even on the podium – so much has betrayed the festival Director Katharina Wagner already.