Posted July 21, 2013

Posted July 21, 2013

Frank Castorf, the director of the 2013 Jubilee Ring at the Bayreuther Festspiele, spoke out in an interview with Spiegel Online stated, “Bayreuth ist pure DDR”.

His colleagues said that when Castorf does show for rehearsals, he is late. Castorf complained that he had only 9 days to stage Das Rheingold. The Festspiele commences July 26th. The live radio transmission schedule is not available  yet on OperaCast.com, but should be up very soon.

You can read more at:

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/castorf-ueber-ring-inszenierung-krit…

cut and paste the URL into translate.google.com for a very rough translation into English

image of Castorf courtesy of Spiegel Online