Froh
Frank Castorf’s staging of the Ring, premiered in 2013 and filmed in 2016, provoked controversy right from the beginning. For Castorf, the Rheingold of our days is oil; thus he places the first part of the tetralogy at a gas station on Route 66. Die Walküre is situated in Baku, Azerbaijan, which was seized by the Bolsheviks in 1920 for its oil, whereas Siegfried takes place in a socialist equivalent of Mount Rushmore and at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. Götterdämmerung is set somewhere in the GDR, ending up at New York’s stock exchange. Whilst Castorf’s staging polarized, Marek Janowski’s musical reading was unanimously praised, as was the excellent cast including in this opera Iain Paterson (Wotan), Nadine Weissmann (Erda), Albert Dohmen (Alberich) and Roberto Saccà (Loge).
Beppe
As comparably short operas, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci are often billed together, but seldom is the lead tenor making his double role debut as Turiddu and Canio on the same evening. At the 2015 Salzburg Easter Festival, Jonas Kaufmann did just that to rapturous praise. Universally hailed as a coup for Kaufmann, the plaudits were also showered on Philipp Stölzl for his innovative staging which includes live video projections while referencing the era of black-and-white movies.
Ein Hirt, Junger Seemann
Christian Thielemann dirige la Orquesta del Festival Bayreuth en esta producción de la ópera de Wagner grabada en 2015. Protagonizada por Stephen Gould como Tristán y Evelyn Herlitzius como Isolda, el elenco también incluye a Georg Zeppenfeld, Iain Paterson, Raimund Nolte y Christa Mayer.
Ein Hirt
Christian Thielemann dirige la Orquesta del Festival Bayreuth en esta producción de la ópera de Wagner grabada en 2015. Protagonizada por Stephen Gould como Tristán y Evelyn Herlitzius como Isolda, el elenco también incluye a Georg Zeppenfeld, Iain Paterson, Raimund Nolte y Christa Mayer.
