Bayreuth’s rat man attacks Katharina Wagner’s lack of vision
mainThe eminent director Hans Neuenfels, who dressed up his chorus as rats in Bayreuth’s celebrated 2010 production Lohengrin, has spoken out over ‘multiple failures’ at the Wagner festival.
He accused Katharina Wagner, now in sole command, of failing to maintain standards. There were ‘no artistic visions and sensations any more.’
He went on to accuse her of incompetence, arrogance and private self-interest – Unfähigkeit, Präpotenz, Privatismen.
And he ascribes Andris Nelsons’s walkout to ‘an accumulation of (Bayreuth) failures’.
Tough talk. Here (auf Deutsch).
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