The Wagner Journal
Recycling, Rodents and Redemption: Barry Millington reports on this year’s offering at Bayreuth
Recycling, Rodents and Redemption: Barry Millington reports on this year’s offering at Bayreuth
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Reviews of Tannhäuser, directed Baumgarten, conducted Hengelbrock, Bayreuth, 2011; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, directed Katharina Wagner, conducted Weigle, Bayreuth, 2011; Lohengrin, directed Neuenfels, conducted Nelsons, Bayreuth, 2011; Parsifal, directed Herheim, conducted Gatti, Bayreuth, 2011; Tristan und Isolde, directed Marthaler, conducted Schneider, Bayreuth, 2011.
November 2011, Volume 5, Number 3, 49–54.
Of the five productions on the stage at the Festspielhaus this year, three – Parsifal, Die Meistersinger and Lohengrin – can be counted among the finest and most important ever staged at Bayreuth. Christoph Marthaler’s Tristan und Isolde, first seen in 2005, represents a serious if alienating approach to the work, while the new Tannhäuser by Sebastian Baumgarten offers a potentially stimulating take on the work but sadly fails to cohere in dramaturgical terms.