Opera
Wagner @ Bayreuth: Frank Castorf's 'Götterdämmerung' Booed Out of Bayreuth
Door Still Open for Concussed Andris Nelsons to Conduct 'Lohengin' at Bayreuth
(Wait...so does that mean said door is closed now?) The brass at Bayreuth have confirmed that recently concussed conductor Andris Nelsons will indeed keep his Friday appointment with Lohengrin. Wagner @ Bayreuth: Frank Castorf's 'Siegfried' as Bad as Expected
It was bound to happen in a staging of Richard Wagner's 'Ring' cycle someday, but few would have expected that in Wagner's own opera house, in his bicentenary year his hero Siegfried would kill the fierce dragon Fafner with a machine gun instead of a magic sword.
