The Bayreuth Festival has closed on 98.1 percent season capacity, exceeding expectations after an initial slow tocket sale. Some 56,000 people attended the 29 performances.
Austrian media are circulating a picture of the Russian soprano in a wedding dress, holding an assault weapon, taken from her instagram account. The picture has been traced to Berlin Staatsoper rehearsals for an upcoming […]
Journalist Sebastian Hammelehle gets some strong news breaks out of an interview with the Bayreuth chief in Der Spiegel. Katharina Wagner says Christian Thielemann will return in 2027 to conduct Parsifal, having resigned as music […]
The following rallying cry has just gone online: Classical musicians, please sign and share! (Thanks to Jonathan Biss, Joyce DiDonato, Midori and Alisa Weilerstein for writing the letter below:) To our fellow citizens: We the […]