Penelope Turing: New Bayreuth (1969, second impression 1971)
Penelope
Turing has attended the Bayreuth Festival almost every year from 1952.
She has followed Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner's so called New Bayreuth
style productions from the time they emerged and later developed.
Wagneropera.net met Penelope Turing in the Festival cafeteria during the second intermission of Stefan Herheim's Parsifal production. An interview we made a few days later with Ms Turing will be published here shortly.
In 1969 Turing's book about Bayreuth after the reopening in 1951 was published. It was reprinted in 1971 and brought up-to-date.
The book is hard to find.
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Penelope Turing's book includes a description of every Festival from 1951 to 1970, covering all the productions.
The book also includes information about all the singers and conductors 1951-70. You will also find all the Bayreuth Festival recordings up to 1970.
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