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The Bayreuth Festival, 2016

Mark Berry's reviews of Frank Castorf's Ring, Katharina Wagner's Tristan and Uwe Eric Laufenberg's at the Bayreuth  Festival are published now on Wagneropera.net: Das Rheingold (Castorf / Janowski), Bayreuth Festival, 2016 Die Walküre (Castorf / Janowski), Bayreuth Festival, 2016 Siegfried (Castorf / Janowski), Bayreuth Festival, 2016 Götterdämmerung (Castorf / Janowski), Bayreuth Festival, 2016 Tristan und Isolde (K. Wagner / Thielemann), Bayreuth Festival, 2016 Parsifal (Laufenberg / Haenchen), Bayreuth Festival, 2016

The Wagner Journal

A new issue of The Wagner Journal is out. Here are some of the content: 'The "Missing Link" in the Evolution of Wagner's Siegfried by Edward A. and Paula M. Bortnichak 'Wagner's Siegfried Act III Scene 1: A Study in "Renunciation of the Will" and the "Sublime" by Richard H. Bell 'Steadfast and Upstanding: Franz Wilhelm Beidler, Richard Wagner's Eldest Grandson' by Dagny Beidler Reviews of: Christopher Alden's Tristan und Isolde in Karlsruhe, Mario Corradi's Tannhäuser in Aachen, Mariusz Trelinski's Tristan und Isolde in Baden-Baden, Philipp Stölzl's Rienzi in Berlin and Lynn Binstock's The Rinse Cycle in London DVDs of various productions at Bayreuth over the last decade CDs of Lohengrin conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch in Munich (1963) and by Karl Böhm in Vienna (1965), of Die Walküre and Siegfried conducted by Marek Janowski (1981–2), and of Wagner-inspired choral works under the title Rhein

Bortnichak on Frank Castorf's Ring production at Bayreuth

On The Wagner Journal's website you can read an extended essay by Edward A. & Paula M. Bortnichak on Frank Castorf's Ring production at Bayreuth. The authors discuss the bold interpretations of Wagner's works at Bayreuth over the last decade in the context of deconstructionist approaches to literature and theatre, concluding with a dramaturgical analysis of the Castorf Ring. This landmark article should prove invaluable to anyone intending to see the production, but will also make stimulating and enlightening reading for anyone interested in the staging of Wagner's works in the modern era. The article and other free content can be accessed here. Read the essay here http://www.thewagnerjournal.co.uk/castorfring.html