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12 hours, 5 minutes ago   -  Intermezzo

Wagner Window: 5

Wagner is smokin'! And you can even light your Wagnercigars (grandiose and not to eveybody's taste) with a box of Festspielhaus matches.

 

14 hours, 54 minutes ago   -  Intermezzo

Thielemann's Bayreuth reign begins

Poised behind a protective hedge of orange cabbage after a sublimely brilliant Die Walküre last night was Christian Thielemann, celebrating his 100th Bayreuth performance. No conductor since Felix Mottl, over a hundred years ago, has conducted as ...

 

15 hours, 58 minutes ago   -  Intermezzo

Wagner Window: 4

See it at the bottom of the window above? Close up below. It's a Wagnertile! You could hang one on your front door to scare the postman. Or perhaps buy a hundred and tile the bathroom.

 

Yesterday   -  Intermezzo

toot toot

A famous Bayreuth Festival tradition is the fanfare which announces the start of each act. Eight trombonists stand on the balcony above the main entrance and play a single fanfare 15 minutes before the act begins, a double fanfare at...

 

Yesterday   -  Intermezzo

wery wet Walkure

Aptly stormy weather greeted visitors to tonight's Die Walküre in Bayreuth. The Festspielehaus is depressingly well-prepared for the wet stuff, with plenty of sheltered refreshment space connected to the theatre itself by covered walkways. Many ...

 

Yesterday   -  Intermezzo

Wagner Window: 3

Yes, the world tastes better with Pall Mall, as this Bayreuth tobacconist reminds us. But what's this? A side line? Yes, in front of the eyecatching 100th Festival anniversary picture, signed by the whole team, are a selection of WagnerTs....

 

July 28   -  Intermezzo

Wagner Window: 2

From a shop window, somewhere in Bayreuth, today I bring you Wagnermugs and Wagnerwine. (I may sneer in public, but don't imagine none of this Wagnertat is finding its way home in my suitcase by the way.....)

 

July 28   -  Intermezzo

Wagner Window: 1

Bayreuth is Wagnertown. If it can be Wagnerised to make a quick €, it is. I expected to find a few souvenirs here, but I've been knocked out by the sheer scale and the ingenuity of Bayreuth's shopkeepers. Today I...

 

July 27   -  Intermezzo

the other Lohengrin

Lohengrin - National Theatre Munich, 25 July 2010 There were two Lohengrins in Bavaria on Sunday. I was at the other one. I had time to take in only the first act of the new Bayreuth one (sounded pretty good)...

 

July 26   -  Intermezzo

Agnes Baltsa in Munich

Agnes Baltsa / Achilleas Wastor - Prinzregententheater Munich, 24 July 2010 Agnes Baltsa sustains an operatic career well into her seventh decade largely due to intelligent and realistic repertoire choices. Like this evening of Greek songs. I wasn't ...

 

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