The Bayreuth chief is to receive a state medal for ‘services to Bavaria in a united Europe’.
Because a united Europe believes that cultural assets should be controlled by the hereditary principle?
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She ruined the Wagner festival.
The productions last years are disgusting.
She should be removed from leading the festival and replaced by a professional figure. Josef Levin.
Bayreuth’s problem is one of success….. what was once groundbreaking, has become convention, but there is a solution:
http://subterraneanreview.blogspot.nl/2016/07/when-new-becomes-old-bayreuths.html
Wondering if this is any way timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of poor old Wieland’s death. That would ironic. Interesting that he is always credited with being the father of Regietheater because I’m certain he would have been horrified with the race to the bottom of inappropriateness that it has become. But not always. Neil Armfield’s Melbourne Ring of 2013 falls into that maligned category and it was brilliant. Bayreuth however is a clear example of the great German art’s inability to change, when it clearly needs to. Awards for someone like Katharina, will not help.
The Melbourne Ring brilliant? You’ve got to be kidding! One of the most tasteless, kitschy, corny travesties of Wagner’s Ring in living memory.
Which is why they’re about to do it all again. Always one isn’t there…