The festival is making stringent economies. Before it began, Katharina Wagner said that, after cuts, the chorus would be maintained at 134 singers. Today, the festival website listed 118. Tobias Könemann of the Union of […]
The Russian mezzo Ekaterina Gubanova has missed too many rehearsals with illness to take part in Tristan und Isolde, the festival has announced. She will be replaced as Brangäne by Christa Mayer. It is still […]
What started out as an album presenting 4 world premiers commissioned by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, turned out to be just 3, plus a regretfully superfluous recording of Kenneth Fuchs’ reorchestration of his Point of […]