Bayreuth

Handel’s Floridante at Bayreuth Baroque in a dark Georgian setting convinces musically not conceptually

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GermanyGermany Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2026 – Handel, Floridante: Soloists, Actors, Chorus of the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, Worcław Baroque Orchestra / Markellos Chryssicos (conductor). Markgräfliches Opernhaus Bayreuth, 8.9.2026. (AB)

[l-r] Yannis François (Coralbo), Gerrit Illenberger (Oronte) and Max Emanuel Cencic (Floridante) © Clemens Manser

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This Fliegende Holländer revival proves quite a tonic after the anti-human beginning to the ‘AI’-Ring

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GermanyGermany Bayreuth Festival 2026 [4] – Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer: Soloists, Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Oksana Lyniv (conductor). Bayreuth Festspielhaus, 29.7.2026. (MB)

Benjamin Bruns (Erik) and Elisabeth Teige (Senta) © BF/Enrico Nawrath

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Rienzi marches up Bayreuth’s Green Hill: political corruption and a hidden family secret blights lives

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GermanyGermany Bayreuth Festival 2026 [3] – Wagner, Rienzi: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra od the Bayreuth Festival / Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor). Livestreamed on STAGE+ (directed by Michael Beyer) from the Bayreuth Fespielehaus, 26.7.2026. (JPr)

Rienzi first scene © BF/Enrico Nawrath

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Compelling directorial craftsmanship and musical excellence come together in Bayreuth’s new Die Meistersinger

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GermanyGermany Bayreuth Festival 2025 [4] – Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nϋrnberg: Soloists, Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Daniele Gatti (conductor). 11.8.2025. (DM-D)

Die Meistersinger Act I © Bayreuther Festspiele/Enrico Nawrath

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In Bayreuth, Semyon Bychkov explores the primordial depths of the Tristan und Isolde score

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GermanyGermany Bayreuth Festival 2025 [3] – Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists, Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Bayreuther Festspielhaus, 10.8.2025. (DM-D)

Tristan und Isolde Act I: [l-r] Ekaterina Gubanova (Brangäne), Andreas Schager (Tristan), Jordan Shanahan (Kurwenal),  Camilla Nylund (Isolde) and Günther Groissböck (King Marke) © Bayreuther Festspiele/Enrico Nawrath

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