With a successful staging, a spectacular re-casting, a difficult primadonna, and an overbooked conductor — it was a colorful season at the Bayreuth Festival. Postcards showing Elena Zhidkova in her ...

SALZBURG, Austria — This year’s entertainingly transgressive new production of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” at the Bayreuth Festival has caused one German-language newspaper to dub the provincial town ...

The German composer was all in favour of innovation, unlike the operatic conservatives who booed Le Gateau Chocolat Picture this. A black British drag artist, all decked out in a blond wig, high heels ...

BAYREUTH, GermanyBAYREUTH, Germany — When Lise Davidsen describes her Bayreuth audition as a chilling experience, she isn’t being metaphorical. Deep in the winter of 2017 she had journeyed to this ...

This article was published 28/08/2019 (1988 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. BAYREUTH, Germany – When Lise Davidsen describes her Bayreuth audition as a chilling experience, ...