Die Meisterbators
From today’s Deutsche Welle:
Germany’s annual Bayreuth Festival of Wagner operas began on Wednesday with a highly anticipated, make-or-break production by the 29-year-old great-granddaughter of the composer Richard Wagner.
And while the applause after the first two acts of Wagner’s only “comic” opera was friendly, the audience — which included a smorgasbord of German political and social elite — was less amused by the third and final act, which featured a few minutes of full frontal nudity, a bizarre sight of Richard Wagner dancing in his underwear and a bunch of master singers horsing around the stage with oversized penises.
If Wagner had been born 150 years later, would he have countenanced such a production? I think he’s one of the few Old Masters that one could successfully make that argument for.
I don’t know about her directing style but she’s definitely got a nice rack!
I’d say she’s a 100% success. She’s got people talking about, and thinking about, opera!
is this true??
“I wonder whether she was making an artistic statement or attempting to shock for the sake of publicity.”
I’d be willing to bet on “shock.”
I wonder whether she was making an artistic statement or attempting to shock for the sake of publicity.
This is what too much sauerkraut does to a population.