Bayreuth’s new Flying Dutchman is a game of doctors and nurses
mainFirst rehearsal shot from NHS ward Wagner:
Photo: Enrico Nawrath/ Bayreuther Festspiele
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It is not new. I have seen it four years ago, superbly conducted by Thielemann.
…and they are not nurses but workers in a factory. Yet again sloppy reporting…
Yes. A fan factory.
Correct. Not a new production. The video lives on YouTube and is a testament to the overall ghastliness of it all. But it doesn’t end with the production. For instance, Merbeth as Senta is a non-event and reason enough to avoid this. She was the Senta again two evenings ago. The others were neither here nor there so nothing memorable about the effort. Thielemann alone could not/cannot save the show.
https://youtu.be/mFqX_oZPL6g
Yes. Macbeth was terrible and Nikitin was expelled after the first rehearsal because he had a swastika tatoo in his body.
Merbeth
I am sorry, your info is sloppy as well. Nikitin did not have swastika anymore on his chest at that moment. At this moment a video of young Nikitin playing drums in the 90s came up on YouTube and there was something resembling to swastika on his chest.
Thank you for your correction. It was a long time ago.
In fact, this is the OLDEST of Bayreuth’s current productions. It was new in, erm, 2012. Eight years ago.
Still no correction.
Correction: six years ago.
(Not that difficult to correct things…is it?)