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Bayreuth Festival 2013

The 2013 edition of the Bayreuth Festival will see a new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen. Stage director Frank Castorf has told German press that the action of his Ring production will start right after the second World War, and that it is a travel to the gold of our age: oil.

Bayreuth Festival 2013 Calendar

25. July, 06:00 PM Der fliegende Holländer
26. July, 06:00 PM Das Rheingold
27. July, 04:00 PM Die Walküre
29. July, 04:00 PM Siegfried
31. July, 04:00 PM Götterdämmerung
01. August, 04:00 PM Tannhäuser
02. August, 04:00 PM Lohengrin
03. August, 06:00 PM Der fliegende Holländer
04. August, 04:00 PM Tannhäuser
05. August, 04:00 PM Lohengrin
06. August, 06:00 PM Der fliegende Holländer
07. August, 04:00 PM Tannhäuser
08. August, 04:00 PM Lohengrin
10. August, 06:00 PM Das Rheingold
11. August, 04:00 PM Lohengrin
12. August, 04:00 PM Tannhäuser
13. August, 06:00 PM Der fliegende Holländer
14. August, 06:00 PM Das Rheingold
15. August, 04:00 PM Die Walküre
17. August, 04:00 PM Siegfried
18. August, 04:00 PM Tannhäuser
19. August, 04:00 PM Götterdämmerung
20. August, 06:00 PM Der fliegende Holländer
22. August, 06:00 PM Das Rheingold
23. August, 04:00 PM Die Walküre
24. August, 06:00 PM Der fliegende Holländer
25. August, 04:00 PM Siegfried
26. August, 04:00 PM Lohengrin
27. August, 04:00 PM Götterdämmerung
28. August, 04:00 PM Tannhäuser
   

Source: Bayreuther Festspiele

 

Das Rheingold

Cast 2013
Conductor Kirill Petrenko
Director Frank Castorf
Stage design Aleksandar Denić
Costumes Adriana Braga Peretzki
Lighting Rainer Casper

Wotan Wolfgang Koch
Donner Oleksandr Pushniak
Froh Lothar Odinius
Fasolt Günther Groissböck
Fafner Sorin Coliban
Alberich Martin Winkler
Mime Burkhard Ulrich
Fricka Claudia Mahnke
Erda Nadine Weissmann
Woglinde Mirella Hagen
Wellgunde Julia Rutigliano
Flosshilde Okka von der Damerau

Die Walküre

Cast 2013

Conductor Kirill Petrenko
Director Frank Castorf
Stage design Aleksandar Denić
Costumes Adriana Braga Peretzki
Lighting Rainer Casper

Siegmund Johan Botha
Hunding Franz-Josef Selig
Wotan Wolfgang Koch
Sieglinde Anja Kampe
Brünnhilde Catherine Foster
Fricka Claudia Mahnke
Gerhilde Allison Oakes
Waltraute Claudia Mahnke
Schwertleite Nadine Weissmann
Helmwige Christiane Kohl
Siegrune Julia Rutigliano
Rossweisse Alexandra Petersamer

Siegfried

Cast 2013

Conductor Kirill Petrenko
Director Frank Castorf
Stage design Aleksandar Denić
Costumes Adriana Braga Peretzki
Lighting Rainer Casper

Siegfried Lance Ryan
Mime Burkhard Ulrich
Der Wanderer Wolfgang Koch
Alberich Martin Winkler
Fafner Sorin Coliban
Erda Nadine Weissmann
Brünnhilde Catherine Foster
Waldvogel Mirella Hagen

Götterdämmerung

Cast 2013

Conductor Kirill Petrenko
Director Frank Castorf
Stage design Aleksandar Denić
Costumes Adriana Braga Peretzki
Lighting Rainer Casper
Choral Conducting Eberhard Friedrich

Siegfried Lance Ryan
Gunther Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester
Hagen Attila Jun
Alberich Martin Winkler
Brünnhilde Catherine Foster
Gutrune Allison Oakes
Waltraute Claudia Mahnke
1. Norn Okka von der Damerau
2. Norn Claudia Mahnke
3. Norn Christiane Kohl
Woglinde Mirella Hagen
Wellgunde Julia Rutigliano
Flosshilde Okka von der Damerau

Frank Castdorf

 

Der fliegende Holländer

Cast 2013

Conductor Christian Thielemann
Director Jan Philipp Gloger
Stage design Christof Hetzer
Costumes Karin Jud
Lighting Urs Schönebaum
Video Martin Eidenberger
Dramaturgy Sophie Becker
Choral Conducting Eberhard Friedrich

Daland Franz-Josef Selig
Senta Ricarda Merbeth
Erik Michael König
Mary Christa Mayer
Der Steuermann Benjamin Bruns
Der Holländer Samuel Youn

Review 2012

Tannhäuser

Cast 2013
Conductor Axel Kober
Director Sebastian Baumgarten
Stage design Joep van Lieshout
Costumes Nina von Mechow
Lighting Franck Evin
Video Christopher Kondek
Dramaturgy Carl Hegemann
Choral Conducting Eberhard Friedrich

Landgraf Hermann Günther Groissböck
Tannhäuser Torsten Kerl
Wolfram von Eschenbach Michael Nagy
Walther von der Vogelweide Lothar Odinius
Biterolf Thomas Jesatko
Reinmar von Zweter Martin Snell
Elisabeth, Nichte des Landgrafen Camilla Nylund
Venus Michelle Breedt
Ein junger Hirt Katja Stuber

Review 2011

Lohengrin

Cast 2013
Conductor Andris Nelsons
Director Hans Neuenfels
Stage design Reinhard von der Thannen
Costumes Reinhard von der Thannen
Lighting Franck Evin
Video Björn Verloh
Dramaturgy Henry Arnold
Choral Conducting Eberhard Friedrich

Heinrich der Vogler Wilhelm Schwinghammer
Lohengrin Klaus Florian Vogt
Elsa von Brabant Annette Dasch
Friedrich von Telramund Thomas J. Mayer
Ortrud Petra Lang
Der Heerrufer des Königs Samuel Youn
1. Edler Stefan Heibach
2. Edler Willem Van der Heyden
3. Edler Rainer Zaun
4. Edler Christian Tschelebiew

Review 2012

Bayreuther Festspiele 2013 Broadcasts

Not announced yet.

 

 

 

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