Review | The Death of the Director: Bayreuth’s 150th Festival AI Ring
At the end of Bayreuth’s new Ring, one question remains more urgent than any discussion of how to rate the production: who, exactly, is the…
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Review | Not a Ghost Ship: Tcherniakov’s Der fliegende Holländer at Bayreuth
After two evenings of Bayreuth’s much-discussed new Ring—a production conceived around artificial intelligence and credited to a curator or “technical conceptor” rather than a theatre…
Review | Siegfried at Paris Opera: Magnificent Music, a Theatrical Void
At Opéra national de Paris’s Opéra Bastille, Calixto Bieito staging of Wagner’s Siegfried arrives as the third panel of a much-anticipated new Ring. Musically, the…
Review │ A problematic Ring receives its final Bayreuth Festival outing
Valentin Schwarz’s production of Wagner’s Ring had its final outing at this year’s Bayreuth Festival with two complete cycles, the second of which I saw…
