Review: At Wagner s festival, a Dutchman never sails
The soprano Asmik Grigorian makes her Bayreuth debut as Senta. With neither ship nor sea, Dmitri Tcherniakovs new Bayreuth Festival staging recasts the opera as a tale of violent revenge. Enrico Nawrath/Bayreuther Festspiele via The New York Times.
by Joshua Barone
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- The pilgrims to the Green Hill, who have been making their way to the storied festival Richard Wagner founded here 145 years ago, looked more like cattle on Sunday. The theaters bucolic grounds had become a network of roped-off, one-way sidewalks and checkpoints.
With stricter pandemic safety measures than many other European opera houses, the Bayreuth Festivals opening night a new production of Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) lacked some of its usual glamour. Indeed, the romance ended at the sight of mobile bathrooms outside the theater; the ones inside had been deemed too risky. The audience was limited
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