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Bayreuth Festival 2026: seven operas instead of eleven for the 150th anniversary

For its 150th anniversary in 2026, the Bayreuth Festival had planned to present eleven operas by Wagner. However, due to budget constraints, the festival has scaled back its ambitions and will finally settle for seven of the composer's works, including a new tetralogy. In 2026, the Bayreuth Festival will celebrate its 150th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Katharina Wagner has promised a programme that will include all ten of Richard Wagner's major operas (from The Flying...

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Published onthe 07 of December

The Flying Dutchman for the impressive St. Margarethen Festival 2025

For its 2025 edition, the Steinbruch Opera Festival in Austria will be staging a new production of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, starring Elisabeth Teige and George Gagnidze. Director Philipp M. Krenn intends to recreate a Norwegian fjord on the gigantic stage of the St. Margarethen quarries. The limestone blocks in the impressive quarry at St Margarethen in Austria have been quarried for almost 2,000 years – the Romans were already using them. In 1996, however, the site...

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Published onthe 16 of November

Lise Davidsen records Wagner's The Flying Dutchman

For several years now, Lise Davidsen has been blossoming in the Wagnerian repertoire. At the Oslo Opera, she sang Senta in the concert version of The Flying Dutchman alongside Gerald Finley and Stanislas de Barbeyrac. The evening will be recorded for the public. Lise Davidsen has now established herself as one of the rising stars of the opera stage, and every engagement of the Norwegian soprano arouses at least a certain amount of curiosity – after distinguishing herself in the...

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Published onthe 22 of August