Bayreuth Update
Two days before the Bayreuth Festival's opening performance — the new Christoph Schlingensief production of Parsifal on 25 July — it seems the shit has already begun to hit the proverbial fan.
As I wrote a couple days ago (22 July):
This year the Festival will open on 25 July with a new production of Parsifal by the postmodern avant-garde German director Christoph Schlingensief (his first-ever opera production) which, I can say in advance without knowing anything whatsoever about what this guy has cooked up, and with no fear of being in error, will be a politically charged and grotesque perversion of Wagner's timeless masterpiece.
As I said, no fear of being in error.
None whatsoever.
Update: Charles T. Downey of Ionarts comments. And I further comment here.
