Dresden gets 15 million Euros to start a Wagner Academy
OrchestrasThe Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media has signed a cheque for a the new Richard Wagner Academy at the Dresdner Musikfestspiele.
Jan Vogler’s festival has become the space-lab for trying out Wagner operas in ‘historically informed’ performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7-yvosng5A
HIP Wagner? No thanks. Presumably they need the lower tuning to assist the plethora of singers who simply can no longer sing Wagner.
Indeed, who are the great Wagnerians of today? Or tomorrow?
If you are telling me that the likes of Davidsen (her reasonable technique duly acknowledged) can hold a candle to the likes of Flagstad, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Birgit Nilsson, etc., then you need your ears tested.
Dresden already misses Thielemann. We all love him
Roth’s orchestra pictured??