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Detlef Roth interviewed about singing Amfortas at the Bayreuth Festival

A new interview is published on Wagneropera.net today. Detlef Roth, Amfortas in Stefan Herheim's Parsifal production at Bayreuth talks about singing Wagner and singing at Bayreuth. Among many other interesting things, Roth explained conductor Daniele  Gatti's approach to Amfortas. "Gatti," he says, "had a very clear idea about how the role should be sung. He wanted even more piano than we did in the performances. Gatti saw Amfortas as a very, very weak person, as a person immersed in his sufferance, only coming out occasionally to be king. Gatti wanted more of almost whispering, but we had to change a lot of that in the actual performances. For me, working on the singing was not so much a technical work on the voice, but more developing the interpretation, especially the colours. It was important for Gatti to have the right colours, and as many colours as possible" Detlef Roth: Amfortas' Suffering is Germany's

Die singende Stadt - a documentary about Staatsoper Stuttgart and Calixto Bieito's Parsifal

Die singende Stadt (The Singing City) is a documentary film about the opera house Staatsoper Stuttgart and Calixto Bieito's Parsifal Production. The film was made by Vadim Jendreyko. It will be shown in German theatres from 10 February. No information about a DVD / Bluray release has been published yet. Die singende Stadt - the trailer See Wagneropera.net for cinemas