A legendary Kundry in the 1980s and 1990s, the outstanding German soprano fell out with the elderly and irascible Wolfgang Wagner and swore never to return.
Today, Waltraud Meier agreed to come back as Ortrud in 2018, when she will be 62.
He is already music director of the Metropolitan…
The tenor Ian Bostridge shocked Symphony Hall Birmingham…
The ARD competition has sacked Liang Wang, principal…
The conductor continues his agitation for a new…
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Could this be the healing hand of Christian Thielemann?
Can I ask what upset her?
Off the cuff, I think it was a dispute involving Wolfgang Wagner and Placido Domingo, but I’m not sure.
Old news, Lebrecht. This has been common knowledge since 2014 for sure: http://www.festspieleblog.de/2014/08/vorschau-petrenko-bleibt-2015-meier-kommt-2018/.
Given her still excellent Kundry in Berlin, Ortrud should still be a good fit, and she should be opposite Alagna and Netrebko.
Thielemann strikes again. What a cast! A new Golden Age?
And after his Dresden Lohengrin in the last few weeks, mein Gott!
So when is Doris Soffel returning to Bayreuth?