Big boos for Siegfried at Bayreuth

Big boos for Siegfried at Bayreuth

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norman lebrecht

August 04, 2022

On a hot night when the bars ran out of ice, the black-tie audience vented its frustrations on the third part of Wagner’s Ring with a return to collective cat-calling.

Austrian director Valentin Schwarz continued his Netflix-aimed soap opera by portraying the dragon that Siegfried kills as the ailing head of a mafia family.

Andreas Schager as Siegfried was warmly received, as was Tomasz Konieczny as Wotan, back faster from injury than any summer footballer.

Photo © Bayreuth Festival / Enrico Nawrath

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