Mairi Nicolson brings you back to this year’s Bayreuth Festival - for the final instalment of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle Götterdämmerung conducted by Australia’s very own Simone Young. Then he needed to go further back and we get Die Walküre and then he decided on a prologue to the whole thing: Rheingold…and then he went back to the end of …
Richard Wagner created a monument to lovers with "Tristan and Isolde." Firstly, there was the eagerly awaited premiere of "Tristan and Isolde" — an age-old story of star-crossed lovers — directed by Icelandic director Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson. Acclaimed debut for Australian conductor With 60,000 international visitors every year, the Bayreuth Festival is Germany's most important opera festival, with critics and …
