Bayreuth announces its first opera premiere since Parsifal

Bayreuth announces its first opera premiere since Parsifal

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norman lebrecht

May 06, 2018

Katharina Wagner has commissioned an opera from the Austrian composer Klaus Lang.

Titled The Vanished Wedding it is being claimed as Bayreuth’s first world premiere since 1882.

The diference?

It will be staged a day before this year’s festival and well away from the Festspielhaus, in a disused cinema, the Reichshof.

The composer will conduct.

 

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