Stefan Herheim rehearsing Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival 2008
Conductor Daniele Gatti, director Stefan Herheim and Mihoko Fujimura (Kundry) discussing the score during rehearsals for the new Parsifal production at Bayreuth 2008.
Photo: Enrico Nawrath/Bayreuther Festspiele.
The dead swan. In Herheim's Parsifal production identities are mixed. The swan is a swan, but also a boy and Parsifal and Parsifal's childhood.
Photo: Enrico Nawrath/Bayreuther Festspiele.
Stefan Herheim with the swan Parsifal killed.
Photo: Enrico Nawrath/Bayreuther Festspiele.
Photos published with thanks to Enrico Nawrath and Bayreuther Festspiele for friendly assistance and kind permission.
Se photos fron Enrico Nawrath's exhibition Bayreuth Backstage here
Stefan Herheim on Wagneropera.net
La Bohème production in Oslo (Alexander Meier-Dörzenbach) • Stefan Herheim (manin page) • Stefan Herheim interview: The Theatre is my Temple • Stefan Herheim on Bayreuth • Stefan Herheim on Daniele Gatti, preludes and tempi • Lohengrin at Staatsoper Berlin (Alexander Meier-Dörzenbach) • Parsifal at Bayreuth •