First pic of Bayreuth’s male Brünnhilde
mainThis is the curtain call at the end of last night’s Götterdämmerung, the closing show of the season.
Catherine Foster hurt her foot at the end of the first act and her role was bravely played out on stage for the next two acts by assistant director Andreas Rosar, decked out in gold lamé.
photo: Erwin Messer/Bayreuth Festspiele
Next year, the role of Brünnhilde will be advertised as being open to men and women.
I’m not so sure Norman, about the genre issue for Brunhilde…. but I’m sure that next Ring will be staged by Andreas Rosar…
Hardly amusing
I want my warrior princess, not a warrior prince.
Why is Brunnhilde in gold lamé?
Why are Nordic Gods eating from a Turkish food truck?
Bründhild is in gold because he is a nasty capitalist financing the Bayreuth Festival.
The Gods are eating from a Turkish truck because they have lost their culture to illegal immigrants voting for the AfD.
I blame Brexit.
You have asked the right question.
At this point in the second act, there aren’t any Nordic gods on stage. Just Brunnhilde (who lost her divinity two operas earlier), Hagen and his food-trailer-trash cronies, the Gibichungs.
Actually, he was chasing a rabbit and didn’t know he was onstage until it was too late.
Kill the wabbit!
Das is kein Mann!
Second time this year at Bayreuth. Isolde was also, albeit very very briefly, played by a man:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6VfnSXxLxk
In Australia the gender lobby has identified 26 separate, previously unrecognized genders, so I think anything works for Bayreuth if you look at it that way. (I’ve had a dull life!)
Bit lazy your gender lobby, wouldn’t you say
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/facebook-offers-greater-choice-for-gender-identity-20140214-32q40.html
As I’ve said elsewhere before, “I’ve had a dull life”!!!
I initially didn’t think that I’d had a dull life but after reading that list, I must have been mistaken.
LOL. Three genders in a day, instead of meals!!
Anyone who thinks this kind of thing is new, hasn’t been to Germany.
You have rather missed the point. Not everyone in the audience realised at first that the sub was a man, and in any case he wasn’t ask to sing, just to mime. He did very well, and it was an ingenious solution to the problem.
Yes! And I’m sure it was extremely convenient, because as an assistant director he already memorized all the staging. I’m not sure what the big deal is.
Assistant stepped in at the last minute to help the production continue. Foster had an accident during the Act 1 curtain call, and bravely decided to continue to sing the rest of the show from a wheelchair, clearly under lot of pain. Apart from few iditots, audience was delighted that Festival managed to find a solution to continue the performance and let us hear one of the best Brunnhildes of our time. Rosar’s performance was very decent and contained with no hints of a drag as some comments migth lead you to believe. Had there been no short large screen close up of his face, majority would not even notice Brunnhilde was played by a guy.
Andreas has also previously stood in for Robert Dean Smith during Act III of the Tristan dress in 2012. He’s a pro.