Kate Connolly writes in the Guardian about Eva and Katharina Wagner's first Bayreuth season, which opens on Sunday: "Fresh touches introduced by the sisters will include a new production of
Lohengrin [by Hans Neuenfels:], in which, Katharina Wagner has let slip, rats will be let
loose on a set designed to resemble an animal research laboratory." Perhaps the rats will discover the rotting rabbits from Schlingensief's Parsifal. Progressives are unimpressed, preemptively attacking the new...
Published on July 23, 2010 13:02