How Salzburg will sabotage Wagner’s Ring

The Salzburg Easter Festival has declared plans to stage Wagner’s Ring over four years, 2026 to 2030.

In 2028 it will break from the Ring to present Arnold Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron, a masterpiece of modernism and Jewish heroism. Nothing could be more calculated to put the antisemitic Wagner in a broader cultural context.

Who’s idea was this? The plans was rolled out as the highlight of the Berlin Philharmonic’s return to Salzburg Easter under the baton of its discreet chief conductor, Kirill Petrenko, who is Jewish.  Salzburg Easter is run by the Austrian Nikolaus Bachler, who formed a symbiotic ruling partnership with Petrenko at Bavarian State Opera. Together, they have cooked up a massive snub to the Bayreuth Weltanschauung. Should be unmissable.

Well done, them.