Day: 7 August 2024
The gods fizzle out. Götterdämmerung at Bayreuth.
*** The audience for Götterdämmerung from Austrian director Valentin Schwarz’s infamous Ring cycle demonstrated the Bayreuth audience shows no fear in overdoing the booing for the creatives and lavishing too much praise on the singers. It seems something of a sport. This fourth section of the Ring Cycle is undoubtedly an unsatisfying take on the…