Whats Hagen Doing in Siegfrieds Opera?
* Götterdämmerung Sensations: * Who Will Stage the 2006 RING? Who Is Competent To Do It? * Loney Bayreuth Festival Website Project: * Bayreuth Goes To The Dogs! * THE NEW-NEW BAYREUTH Is This Nonsense Really Necessary? The Past Is But Prologue- When Richard Wagner’s grandsons-Wieland & Wolfgang Wagner-resumed the Bayreuth Festival in 1951, after the wartime closure of the annual festival, the production-style that soon emerged was given the title of THE NEW BAYREUTH. Neither of the Wagner brothers wished to resume the pre-war fantasy-romantic Wagner Festival stagings of director Heinz Tietjens and designer Emil Preetorius-although even today some of these stage-visions look very attractive. But that very attractiveness-“picture-pretty”-obviously worked against the power and the mythic meaning of Wagner’s operas. Nor did the Brothers Wagner want to exhume historic Wagner stagings, despite the eagerness of some “Perfect Wagnerites”-Bernard Shaw’s dismissive term for Wagner Fanatics- to s
