FULL Wagner, Bayreuth und der Rest der Welt Documentary Germany 2021
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Wagner, Bayreuth und der Rest der Welt
- Composer: Wagner Richard
- Libretto: Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: various
- Recorded: 2021
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Anja Harteros, Plácido Domingo, Piotr Beczała
- Conductor: Christian Thielemann, Valery Gergiev
- Orchestra:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Naxos Audiovisual
- TV Director: Axel Brüggemann
- Date Published: 2022
- Format: DVD & BD
- Quality Video: 5 Audio:5
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, desubs
- Video Recording from: AMAZON
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Richard Wagner is a social phenomenon, for some even a question of faith. The Bayreuth Festival Hall is still considered a place of pilgrimage by many.
Director and music journalist Axel Brüggemann humorously explores the question of how such a hype and cult has developed around this highly controversial artist to this day, which seems to know almost only admirers or opponents.
How can it be that the Festival Hall in the Franconian province becomes a Mecca for Wagner lovers from all over the world every summer? And how could Bayreuth remain the “living room of the Germans” to this day in the monarchy of King Ludwig, in the fascist dictatorship and in the democracy – and this despite the hard seats?
The focus of the film is the Festival Hall in Bayreuth and the artistic work in the historic walls. Katharina Wagner, the composer’s great-granddaughter, artistic director and managing director of the Bayreuth Festival, gives exclusive insights into her rehearsal work and tells what it is like to direct. Conductor Christian Thielemann takes the audience into the mystical Bayreuth orchestra pit.
Wagner expert Alex Ross and the Franconian butcher couple Rauch open up completely new perspectives on Wagner’s world, the festival and the “opening circus” with political celebrities. A tongue-in-cheek look behind the scenes of perhaps the most German myth through the eyes of Wagner fans all over the world – between passion and music, politics, culture, glamour and bratwurst.
The documentary also shows the conflict between the love of Richard Wagner’s music on the one hand and the rejection and criticism of the composer’s anti-Semitic views on the other. The film describes Wagner’s magnificent music with brilliant images and exclusively accompanies some rehearsals with world-famous artists such as Piotr Beczala, Valery Gergiev, Plácido Domingo, Barrie Kosky and Anja Harteros.
quoted from ORF